Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln Water System 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. Total hardness 192 ppm / 11.2 grains per gallon (range 180–236 ppm / 10.3–12.6 gpg). Chloramine as chlorine 2.44 ppm. No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- Hardness192 ppm / 11.2 gpg (range 180–236)
- Chloramine2.44 ppm (range 0.02–3.77)
- TTHMs32.4 ppb (range 19–49)
- HAA519.8 ppb (range ND–33.4)
Best match for Lincoln
Salt-based water softener
No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.
A salt-based softener is the thing that actually removes hardness. Size it from your grains and how much water you use, not bathroom count. It needs a drain.
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Other options that still fit
Salt-free conditioner
A salt-free conditioner changes how scale sticks. It does not soften. Soap and spots stay closer to untreated. No brine line.
Whole-house catalytic carbon for chloramine
Catalytic carbon with a chloramine claim (NSF/ANSI 42 for chloramine). Regular chlorine carbon is the wrong box.
Under-sink reverse osmosis
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
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Test the tap first
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
On the report
- Water utility
- Lincoln Water System
- Hardness
- Additional water-quality parameters, 2025 monthly distribution testing. Total hardness 192 ppm or 11.2 grains per gallon. Range 180–236 ppm or 10.3–12.6 grains per gallon. One citywide row — not a blend. — Lincoln Water System 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report
- Disinfectant
- Chloramine (as chlorine) highest running annual average 2.44 ppm (range 0.02–3.77), MRDL 4 / MRDLG 4. Chloramine, not free chlorine. 2025 distribution residual. — Lincoln Water System 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched Lincoln Water System and City of Lincoln sewer pages for a residential self-regenerating softener or brine-drain ban like LACSD Measure S. None turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- SodiumSame 2025 secondary table. Sodium 29 ppm (range 28.2–30.7). Nebraska prints a 500 ppm MCL note on that row.29 ppm (range 28.2–30.7).2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report — Lincoln Water System
Lincoln drinking water is Lincoln Water System — Platte River wellfield groundwater. No City of Lincoln residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.
The 2025 report prints total hardness 192 ppm / 11.2 gpg (range 180–236 ppm). Chloramine as chlorine 2.44 ppm (0.02–3.77). TTHMs 32.4 ppb (19–49). HAA5 19.8 ppb (ND–33.4). Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report — Lincoln Water System. Accessed 2026-09-10.
Updated September 10, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.