Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates, NE
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 35.2 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates at a glance
Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates serves about 250 people through 100 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 Sarpy County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120157; phone on file: 402-319-5862. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 33.6 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2026. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates is 35.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 35.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2026 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 35.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.65 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.65 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates's 35.2 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Nebraska and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sarpy County
12 other systems share Sarpy County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Papillion, City Of | 35,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gretna, City Of | 8,661 | 2.28 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 158 - Tiburon Golf Course | 1,992 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springfield, City Of | 1,529 | 3 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 23 - Westmont Subdivision | 980 | 3.1 ppb |
| Bellevue Terrace Mhc Llc | 357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sarpy Co Sid 79 - Meadow Oaks | 300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Sarpy Co Sid 81 - Fairview Heights | 280 | 1.42 ppb |
| Washington Terrace Llc | 223 | 2.23 ppb |
| Woodland Valley Mhc Llc | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sarpy Co Sid 38 - Highland 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.