Richardson Co Rwd 2, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.95 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Richardson Co Rwd 2 at a glance
Richardson Co Rwd 2 serves about 980 people through 233 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: NE3114704; phone on file: 402-245-8750. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.68 ppb from 1.27 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Richardson Co Rwd 2 is 71.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.95 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2024 | 71.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 5.88 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.88 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 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. Richardson Co Rwd 2's 4.95 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Nebraska and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Richardson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Richardson Co Rwd 2. 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 |
| Humboldt, City Of | 950 | 1.2 ppb |
| Richardson Co Rwd 1 | 812 | 0.78 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; Falls 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 Richardson 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.