Burr, Village Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Burr, Village Of at a glance
Burr, Village Of serves about 57 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Otoe County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3113110; phone on file: 402-874-0070. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Burr, Village Of's lead record
That is down 1.07 ppb from 1.07 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burr, Village Of is 15.5 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.07 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.76 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2019 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0.99 ppb |
| 2018 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Nebraska systems
Of the 576 Nebraska systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.55 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 29 have gone over at some point. Burr, Village Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Nebraska and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Otoe County
10 other systems share Otoe County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burr, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nebraska City, City Of | 7,220 | 0.52 ppb |
| Otoe Co Rwd #3 | 2,500 | 1.55 ppb |
| Syracuse, City Of | 1,962 | 8.73 ppb |
| Otoe Co Rwd 1 | 714 | 0.6 ppb |
| Palmyra, Village Of | 567 | 3.5 ppb |
| Unadilla, Village Of | 311 | 2.33 ppb |
| Otoe, Village Of | 288 | 3.85 ppb |
| Talmage, Village Of | 266 | 2.99 ppb |
| Douglas, Village Of | 200 | 2.75 ppb |
| Dunbar, Village Of | 195 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burr, NE may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Burr, Village Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.