Stratton, Village Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.31 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Stratton, Village Of serves about 310 people through 211 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 Hitchcock County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3108701; phone on file: 308-276-2184. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Stratton, Village Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stratton, Village Of is 15.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.3 ppb over 15 |
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. Stratton, Village Of's 0.31 ppb sits at the 18th percentile in Nebraska and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Hitchcock County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stratton, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Culbertson, Village Of | 534 | 1.17 ppb |
| Trenton, Village Of | 506 | 1.66 ppb |
| Palisade, Village Of | 294 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stratton, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stratton, 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 Stratton, 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.