Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd), NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd) at a glance
Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd) serves about 28 people through 11 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 Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3121519; phone on file: 847-894-3427. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd) is 1.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.29 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.12 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. Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd)'s 1.8 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Nebraska and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Scotts Bluff County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Scottsbluff, City Of | 14,282 | 3.2 ppb |
| Gering, City Of | 8,500 | 2.72 ppb |
| Mitchell, City Of | 1,526 | 3.15 ppb |
| Western Ne Joint Water Board | 1,368 | - |
| Terrytown, City Of | 1,143 | 1.5 ppb |
| Morrill, Village Of | 934 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minatare, City Of | 809 | 1.06 ppb |
| Lyman, Village Of | 325 | 2.45 ppb |
| Henry, Village Of | 163 | 0.37 ppb |
| Scotts Bluff Co Sid 10 - Wildcat Hills | 150 | 0.95 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mitchell, 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 Scotts Bluff Co Sid 13 (Hilyard Subd) 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.