Steele City, Village Of, NE
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Steele City, Village Of serves about 60 people through 41 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 Jefferson County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3109502; phone on file: 402-442-0444. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 12.81 ppb from 0.69 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Steele City, Village Of is 13.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.24 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. Steele City, Village Of's 13.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Nebraska and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Jefferson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Steele City, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fairbury, City Of | 3,707 | 1.85 ppb |
| Little Blue Nrd Rwd 1 | 1,580 | 1.38 ppb |
| Plymouth, Village Of | 400 | 2.91 ppb |
| Diller, Village Of | 269 | 1.8 ppb |
| Daykin, Village Of | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Endicott, Village Of | 132 | 3.4 ppb |
| Jansen, Village Of | 99 | 1.25 ppb |
| Harbine, Village Of | 65 | 3.45 ppb |
| Reynolds, Village Of | 60 | 3.29 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Steele 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 Steele City, Village Of 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.