East Park Estates, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.15 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
East Park Estates at a glance
East Park Estates serves about 100 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 Holt County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3108908; phone on file: 402-961-0121. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.15 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Park Estates is 1.15 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.47 ppb |
How East Park Estates 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. East Park Estates's 1.15 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Nebraska and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Holt County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Park Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneill, City Of | 3,705 | 1.11 ppb |
| Atkinson, City Of | 1,298 | 1.94 ppb |
| Stuart, Village Of | 486 | 0.55 ppb |
| Ewing, Village Of | 367 | 2.55 ppb |
| Chambers, Village Of | 288 | 0.85 ppb |
| Page, Village Of | 166 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Atkinson, 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 East Park 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.