Richardson Co Rwd 1, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.78 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.
Richardson Co Rwd 1 at a glance
Richardson Co Rwd 1 serves about 812 people through 311 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 Richardson County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3114701; phone on file: 402-862-5325. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Richardson Co Rwd 1's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Richardson Co Rwd 1 is 2.39 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.78 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.39 ppb |
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. Richardson Co Rwd 1's 0.78 ppb sits at the 27th percentile in Nebraska and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Richardson County
10 other systems share Richardson County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Richardson Co Rwd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Falls City, City Of | 4,015 | 1.55 ppb |
| Richardson Co Rwd 2 | 980 | 4.95 ppb |
| Humboldt, City Of | 950 | 1.2 ppb |
| Dawson, Village Of | 209 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rulo, Village Of | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Verdon, Village Of | 175 | 1.95 ppb |
| Salem, Village Of | 160 | 0.7 ppb |
| Stella, Village Of | 140 | 0.72 ppb |
| Shubert, Village Of | 138 | 0.8 ppb |
| Colonial Acres Nursing Home | 122 | 0.98 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Humboldt, 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 Richardson Co Rwd 1 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.