Osmond, City Of, NE
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Osmond, City Of serves about 870 people through 408 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pierce County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3113903; phone on file: 402-748-3800. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 15.5 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Osmond, City Of is 17.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 17.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.93 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.93 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
Of the 576 Nebraska systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.55 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 29 have gone over at some point. Osmond, City Of's 17.2 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Nebraska and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Pierce County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Osmond, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pierce, City Of | 1,800 | 2.3 ppb |
| Plainview, City Of | 1,282 | 1.6 ppb |
| Mclean, Village Of | 47 | 1.55 ppb |
Next steps for Osmond, NE
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Osmond, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1660 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.