Saunders Co Sid 8, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.61 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. 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
Saunders Co Sid 8 serves about 925 people through 459 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Saunders County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120483; phone on file: 402-753-0247. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saunders Co Sid 8 is 10.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.61 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.39 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.25 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.81 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.29 ppb |
| 2019 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 0.97 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. Saunders Co Sid 8's 2.61 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Nebraska and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Saunders County
20 other systems share Saunders County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saunders Co Sid 8. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wahoo, City Of | 4,500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ashland, City Of | 3,369 | 2.03 ppb |
| Yutan, City Of | 1,274 | 0.61 ppb |
| Ceresco, Village Of | 919 | 2.52 ppb |
| Cedar Bluffs, Village Of | 600 | 1.97 ppb |
| Valparaiso, Village Of | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
| Mead, Village Of | 569 | 1.1 ppb |
| Weston, Village Of | 310 | 2.95 ppb |
| Prague, Village Of | 291 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Allure Subdivision - Ashland | 179 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fremont, 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 Saunders Co Sid 8 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2050 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.