Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes, NE
Lead reported as not detected
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 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.
Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes at a glance
Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes serves about 125 people through 52 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 Douglas County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3105512; phone on file: 402-502-4991. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes is 1.17 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.17 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.17 ppb |
How Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes 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. Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Nebraska and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Douglas County
11 other systems share Douglas County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Utilities District | 660,000 | 12.3 ppb |
| Valley, City Of | 3,294 | 2 ppb |
| Waterloo, Village Of | 962 | 11.7 ppb |
| Maplewood Estates Mobile Home Park | 805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowbrook Estates Water System | 675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Douglas Co Sid 284 -Trailridge Ranches | 450 | 1.2 ppb |
| Douglas Co Sid 277 - The Farm | 450 | 12.2 ppb |
| Douglas Co Sid 303 - Skyline Woods | 450 | 9.8 ppb |
| Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes | 330 | 3.35 ppb |
| West Military Water Company | 300 | 1.77 ppb |
Next steps for Omaha, NE
Look up your address in Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes'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 Douglas Co Sid 258 - Carat Homes 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.