Utilities & Transportation
Electricity
- Supplier: Falls City Utilities
- KW capacity: 21,116
- KW peak demand: 15,100
- Additional sources: Omaha Public Power District, Western Area Power Association, Nebraska Municipal Power Pool
Waste Water Treatment
- Type of sewage treatment: Extended Air Activated
- Sledge Capacity: 1,400,000 gallons/day
- Present load: 650,000 gallons/day
- Sewer use charge: Yes
Natural Gas
- Natural gas service available: Yes
- Supplier: Falls City Utilities
Water
- Water supplied by: City of Falls City
- Name of supplier: Falls City Utilities
- Source of city water: Wells
- Number of wells: 11
- Average depth of wells: 65 feet
- Capacity of water plant: 1,500 gallons/minute
- Average consumption: 750,000 gallons/day
- Peak consumption: 1,400,000 gallons/day
- Storage capacity: 2,000,000 gallons
- Hardness (ppm): 175
- Treated: Yes
- Temperature range: 56º F
Telephone & Wireless
- Local telephone service provider: Southeast Nebraska Communications
Southeast Nebraska Communications
110 W. 17th Street
Falls City, NE 68355
402.245.4451
Alltel Wireless
110 W. 17th Street
Falls City NE 68355
402.245.4451
US Cellular
Radioshack
1610 Stone Street
Falls City NE 68355
402.245.5029
Internet/ DSL/ Cable/Dial Up
- Southeast Nebraska Communications: Dial up and DSL Internet
- Swiftlink Communications: Wireless Internet
- Time Warner Cable: Broadband Internet, Cable TV
Southeast Nebraska Communications
122 W. 17th Street
Falls City, NE 68355
402.245.6000
Time Warner
1816 Stone Street
Falls City NE 68355
402.245.2863
SwiftLink Communications
1721 Stone Street
Falls City NE 68355
402.245.2878
Garbage
Falls City Sanitation
1503 Lane St.
Falls City NE 68355
402.245.4545
Local Transit System
Richardson County Transit: 402.245.3664
Motor Carrier
- Highway bus service available
2 federal highways serving city
2 state highways serving city - City is NOT within one mile of an interstate highway interchange
- Names of nearest interstate highways: I-29; I-80; I-70
- Distance to nearest interstate interchange: 25 miles
Motor freight carriers serving community
Interstate carriers: 6
Intrastate carriers: 2
Time in transit for carload or truckload lots to:
| City | Days by Railroad | Days by Motor Freight |
| Chicago | 4 | 2 |
| Dallas | 3 | 2 |
| Denver | 4 | 1 |
| Kansas City | 1 | 1 |
| Los Angeles | 5 | 3 |
| Minneapolis | 3 | 2 |
| New York | 5 | 2 |
| St. Louis | 2 | 1 |
Air
- Distance to nearest public airport: 1 mile
- Elevation: 991 feet
- Type of runway: Hard surface
- Length of longest runway: 4,200 feet
- Runway lighted: Yes
- Private aircraft storage available: Yes
- Private aircraft maintenance available: Yes
Location of air transportation:
- Kansas City International Airport: 91 miles
- Omaha Eppley Airfield: 107 miles
- Names of airlines serving: Air Canada, American, American West, Delta, Delta Express, Frontier, Midwest Express, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways, US Airways Express.
Barge
- City does NOT adjoin navigable river
- Distance to nearest barge dock: 14 miles
Rail
- Community served by railroad
- Distance to nearest loading point: 0 miles (grain)
- Number of freight train trips per day: 5* (does not include coal trains)
- No functional piggy back ramp available
- Distance to nearest piggy back ramp service: 100 miles
- Names of railroads: Burlington Nortdern Santa Fe, Union Pacific Railroad
