Water and Sewer Utilities

City Drinking Water Source Information & Facts

The City of Chadron has 3 options for supplying its residents with clean drinking water:

• Ground water
• Surface water from Chadron Creek
• Water originating from an infiltration gallery

The city is fortunate that the ground water is clean with low nitrates, but it still has the challenge of moving this water roughly 18 miles from their well field to town. Since their public supply wells are located outside city jurisdiction, city officials questioned what authority they had to protect their system and drinking water.

Private Well Testing

If you would like to test your private well, Nebraska Association of Resource Districts offers free water testing.

Water Usage Facts

• 85% of Nebraskans rely on groundwater for drinking water.
• A leak of one drop per second can waste up to 2,400 gallons of water a year.
• A single U.S. quart of motor oil can pollute up to 250,000 gallons of water. Everyone should take used motor oil and other automobile fluids to a service station that advertises collection for reprocessing.
• Homeowners use up to 10 times more chemicals per acre than farmers.
• The number one trigger of daytime fatigue is the lack of water.

More Information

For more information on water quality conservation efforts, please visit the Upper Niobrara-White Natural Resource District website.