Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.42 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights serves about 280 people through 77 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 Sarpy County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3115309; phone on file: 402-983-2399. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.53 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights is 12.24 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.53 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.24 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.59 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.55 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.23 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.98 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.29 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. Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights's 1.42 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Nebraska and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sarpy County
12 other systems share Sarpy County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Papillion, City Of | 35,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gretna, City Of | 8,661 | 2.28 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 158 - Tiburon Golf Course | 1,992 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springfield, City Of | 1,529 | 3 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 23 - Westmont Subdivision | 980 | 3.1 ppb |
| Bellevue Terrace Mhc Llc | 357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sarpy Co Sid 79 - Meadow Oaks | 300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates | 250 | 35.2 ppb |
| Washington Terrace Llc | 223 | 2.23 ppb |
| Woodland Valley Mhc Llc | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Springfield, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Springfield, 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 Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1640 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.