Community Water System · PWSID NE3102704

Obert, Village of

Serves 58 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentHartington, Nebraska
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1981: 6 violations. 2 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 78% 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

1981 · Missed or late test: 11982 · Missed or late test: 11984 · Over the limit: 11985 · Over the limit: 11985 · Missed or late test: 1198519901995200020052010201520202024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% over the limit · 250% missed or late test · 317% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 1985-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  3. 1985-06-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  4. 1984-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  5. 1982-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 1981-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served58
Service connections14
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHartington
EPA ZIP on file68739

Areas served

  • Obert, Cedar County

Reading this record

Obert, Village of is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 58 people in Hartington, 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.