Eagles Nest Estates, NE
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Eagles Nest Estates at a glance
Eagles Nest Estates serves about 52 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dawes County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120840; phone on file: 308-432-4349. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eagles Nest Estates is 1.15 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.15 ppb |
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. Eagles Nest Estates'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.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Dawes County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eagles Nest Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chadron, City Of | 6,257 | 7.05 ppb |
| Crawford, City Of | 840 | 16.3 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Job Corps | 250 | 2.55 ppb |
| Dawes Co Rwd 1 | 59 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitney, Village Of | 57 | 4.7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Eagles Nest Estates'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 Eagles Nest Estates 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.