Comstock, Village Of, NE
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Comstock, Village Of serves about 100 people through 61 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 Custer County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3104110; phone on file: 308-628-4124. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Comstock, Village Of's lead record
That is down 1.89 ppb from 1.89 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Comstock, Village Of is 1.89 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.89 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.17 ppb |
How Comstock, Village Of compares
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. Comstock, Village Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Nebraska and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Custer County
9 other systems share Custer County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Comstock, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Broken Bow, City Of | 3,600 | 2.2 ppb |
| Arnold, Village Of | 592 | 3.15 ppb |
| Callaway, Village Of | 563 | 1.9 ppb |
| Sargent, City Of | 550 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ansley, Village Of | 459 | 2.25 ppb |
| Merna, Village Of | 363 | 7.94 ppb |
| Mason City, Village Of | 171 | 0.9 ppb |
| Oconto, Village Of | 150 | 0.32 ppb |
| Anselmo, Village Of | 92 | 1.55 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Comstock, Village Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Comstock, 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.