Dunbar, Village Of, 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.
Who runs the water here
Dunbar, Village Of serves about 195 people through 89 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: NE3113111; phone on file: 402-209-3313. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dunbar, Village Of is 0.72 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.36 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.72 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Dunbar, Village Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Nebraska and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Otoe County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dunbar, 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 |
| Burr, Village Of | 57 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Dunbar, 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 Dunbar, Village Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1457 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.