Community Water System · PWSID NE3111106

City of North Platte

Serves 25,000 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentNorth Platte, Nebraska
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On record since 1980: 4 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2015-10-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% of active water systems in Nebraska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1980 · Missed or late test: 119801985199019952000200520102015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 3201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% over the limit · 325% missed or late test · 1

Across Nebraska, 48% of violations are missed or late tests and 29% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7.6 ppb
7.3 ppb
5.8 ppb
5.7 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 1980-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served25,000
Service connections12,000
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNorth Platte
EPA ZIP on file69103

Areas served

  • North Platte, Lincoln County

Reading this record

City of North Platte is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 25,000 people in North Platte, Nebraska. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.