Meadowbrook Estates Water System, 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
Meadowbrook Estates Water System serves about 675 people through 266 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Douglas County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3121363; phone on file: 402-895-7072. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadowbrook Estates Water System is 2.07 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.52 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.07 ppb |
How Meadowbrook Estates Water System 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. Meadowbrook Estates Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Nebraska and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Douglas County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadowbrook Estates Water System. 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) |
| 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 |
| Mount Michael High School | 300 | 11.8 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Meadowbrook Estates Water System'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 Meadowbrook Estates Water System 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.