City of Columbus
Drinking water quality, contact, and Consumer Confidence Report
Serving 1 city in NE · PWSID NE3114110
City of Columbus serves 24,028 people. 4 contaminants currently exceed health-based guidelines — full breakdown below.
- People served
- 24,028
- Last EPA sample
- 2025-05-12
- PFAS
- Not detected
- Health-based violations since 2020
- 0
Data sources: EPA SDWIS, City of Columbus's published Consumer Confidence Report, and compliance monitoring reported to EPA by Nebraska DEE.
This page summarizes publicly available EPA and CCR records. For health decisions about your water, consult your utility or a licensed professional.
Official City of Columbus Resources
Help Paying Your City of Columbus Water Bill
- Ask City of Columbus about payment plans and assistance.
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- Find your local Community Action Agency.Verified from communityactionpartnership.com
- The federal water-bill program (LIHWAP) ended in March 2024.Verified from acf.govVerified from csd.ca.gov
Water outage or no water?
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City of Columbus Service Area
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City of Columbus Water Quality Grade
Not graded: Warning
City of Columbus reads Warning. A letter grade is given only beside a Safe verdict.
Is City of Columbus Water Safe to Drink?
City of Columbus has reported 4 contaminants above EPA health-based guidelines (MCLGs) in at least one city served. We recommend reviewing individual city reports below for specific water quality details.
This utility serves 24,028 people across 1 city in NE. Water quality can vary by location within the service area. Check individual city pages below for detailed contaminant data specific to your area.
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Fluoride in City of Columbus Water
City of Columbus
PWSID NE3114110
City of Columbus reported 0.785 mg/L, at or above the 0.7 mg/L U.S. Public Health Service recommendation and below the 1.5 mg/L WHO guideline value and NTP neurodevelopment review level.
City of Columbus Service Area
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City of Columbus Contact & Information
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Water Sources & Treatment
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Disinfectant Used
hypochlorite
City of Columbus Consumer Confidence Report
A Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) is the EPA-mandated annual water-quality report every community water system must publish by July 1 each year (Safe Drinking Water Act §1414(c)(4)). It summarizes contaminants tested, MCL and MCLG comparisons, and any system violations from the prior calendar year.
A current CCR for City of Columbus has not been published or validated on TapWaterData yet.
Residents: contact the utility directly using the phone number above, or check the EPA’s national CCR portal. Reports are typically distributed by mail or posted on the utility’s official website.
City of Columbus Annual Water Quality Reports
We don’t have a link we can confirm belongs to this system, and we’d rather show none than the wrong utility’s. Nebraska DEE publishes drinking-water reports for systems in this state.
Visit Nebraska DEEWhat is a CCR? The Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) is an annual water quality report that water utilities are required by the EPA to provide to customers. It contains information about your water source, detected contaminants, and compliance status.
EPA Health-Based Violations Since 2020
City of Columbus has no health-based EPA violation since 2020 (EPA data as of Q2 2026).
EPA SDWA violation data as of Q2 2026 (downloaded 2026-07-09).
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How we built this page
Water-quality and contact data on this page comes from public federal and state records. We update each utility's record whenever its underlying source publishes new data — typically within days of an EPA SDWIS refresh.
- Contaminants & violations: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) plus the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR-5) for PFAS and emerging contaminants.
- Annual reports: City of Columbus's most recent published Consumer Confidence Report (CCR), where available.
- Service area & contact: EPA SDWIS. The compliance records it holds for this system are reported to EPA by Nebraska DEE, the state's drinking-water primacy agency.
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