Newcastle, Village Of, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.21 ppb (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. 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.
About Newcastle, Village Of
Newcastle, Village Of serves about 300 people through 135 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 Dixon County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3105105; phone on file: 605-670-2185. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Newcastle, Village Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.45 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newcastle, Village Of is 3.19 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.45 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.89 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.19 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.88 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.76 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. Newcastle, Village Of's 2.21 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Nebraska and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Dixon County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newcastle, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wakefield, City Of | 1,450 | 3.5 ppb |
| Ponca, City Of | 894 | 3.5 ppb |
| Allen, Village Of | 377 | 8.4 ppb |
| Concord, Village Of | 148 | 0.85 ppb |
| Maskell, Village Of | 86 | 2.4 ppb |
| Dixon, Village Of | 80 | 0.82 ppb |
| Martinsburg, Village Of | 78 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterbury, Village Of | 74 | 0.99 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newcastle, 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 Newcastle, Village Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1724 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.