Bayard Nebraska Water Crisis | Lincoln News

0:00It's September 11th. From your city to your ears, this is Lincoln News today, powered by AI. Beard, Nebraska, is telling its residents to hold off on drinking the city water. Recent tests show nitrate levels way over the safe limit, more than six times what's allowed. This means the water isn't safe for drinking, cooking, or even brushing your teeth. The federal limit for nitrates and drinking water is 10 mg per liter. One test came back with a reading of 10.3 and another showed 11.3 mg per liter. Officials are really hoping these numbers are just the fluke. This is serious because high nitrate levels can cause health problems, especially for infants, leading to something called blue baby syndrome. The city is working to get to the bottom of this and figure out what's going on with their water supply. They've done some new testing and are waiting on those results. The hope is that these new tests will show the earlier readings were inaccurate and they're also looking at a water treatment plan that should be up and running in the next few months. In the meantime, the city has set up a water distribution point at the

1:03pavilion on 1213th Street for residents to get safe drinking water.