Syracuse, City Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.73 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Syracuse, City Of serves about 1,962 people through 1,007 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Otoe County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3113104; phone on file: 402-269-2173. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.77 ppb from 12.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Syracuse, City Of is 26 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 8.73 ppb |
| 2023 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 8.68 ppb |
| 2017 | 26 ppb over 15 |
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. Syracuse, City Of's 8.73 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Nebraska and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Otoe County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Syracuse, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nebraska City, City Of | 7,220 | 0.52 ppb |
| Otoe Co Rwd #3 | 2,500 | 1.55 ppb |
| Otoe Co Rwd 1 | 714 | 0.6 ppb |
| Palmyra, Village Of | 567 | 3.5 ppb |
| Unadilla, Village Of | 311 | 2.33 ppb |
| Otoe, Village Of | 288 | 3.85 ppb |
| Talmage, Village Of | 266 | 2.99 ppb |
| Douglas, Village Of | 200 | 2.75 ppb |
| Dunbar, Village Of | 195 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burr, Village Of | 57 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Syracuse, 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 Syracuse, City 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.