Raymond, Village Of, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.55 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Raymond, Village Of at a glance
Raymond, Village Of serves about 220 people through 88 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 Lancaster County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3110907; phone on file: 402-450-2723. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Raymond, Village Of's lead record
That is down 4.44 ppb from 4.99 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Raymond, Village Of is 4.99 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.55 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.99 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.73 ppb |
Against other Nebraska systems
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. Raymond, Village Of's 0.55 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in Nebraska and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lancaster County
21 other systems share Lancaster County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Raymond, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln, City Of | 296,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lancaster Co Rwd 1 | 6,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Waverly, City Of | 4,279 | 1.43 ppb |
| Hickman, City Of | 3,300 | 2.33 ppb |
| Contempo Mhp | 1,630 | 0.71 ppb |
| Bennet, Village Of | 1,082 | 1.6 ppb |
| Firth, Village Of | 640 | 1.42 ppb |
| Malcolm, Village Of | 457 | 0.95 ppb |
| Hallam, Village Of | 308 | 0.35 ppb |
| Panama, Village Of | 250 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Raymond, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Raymond, 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 Raymond, Village Of 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.