Pawnee Co Rwd #2, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.58 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Pawnee Co Rwd #2 at a glance
Pawnee Co Rwd #2 serves about 40 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pawnee County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3121445; phone on file: 402-852-2019. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pawnee Co Rwd #2's lead record
That is down 3.82 ppb from 7.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pawnee Co Rwd #2 is 11.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.58 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 3.97 ppb |
How Pawnee Co Rwd #2 compares
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. Pawnee Co Rwd #2's 3.58 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Nebraska and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pawnee County
7 other systems share Pawnee County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pawnee Co Rwd #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pawnee Co Rwd #1 | 1,500 | 4.1 ppb |
| Pawnee City, City Of | 830 | 5.2 ppb |
| Table Rock, Village Of | 247 | 5.05 ppb |
| Dubois, Village Of | 123 | 1.34 ppb |
| Burchard, Village Of | 82 | 7.4 ppb |
| Steinauer, Village Of | 65 | 3.45 ppb |
| Lewiston, Village Of | 58 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pawnee City, NE may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pawnee Co Rwd #2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.