Polk, Village Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.85 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Polk, Village Of serves about 346 people through 188 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3114301; phone on file: 402-765-6471. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.51 ppb from 1.34 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Polk, Village Of is 27.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.85 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.34 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.88 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.43 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.71 ppb |
| 2018 | 27.8 ppb over 15 |
| 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. Polk, Village Of's 2.85 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Nebraska and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Polk County
3 other systems share Polk County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Polk, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stromsburg, City Of | 1,155 | 3.91 ppb |
| Osceola, City Of | 875 | 27.6 ppb |
| Shelby, Village Of | 714 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Polk, 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 Polk, Village Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1630 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.