Valley View Estates, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Valley View Estates at a glance
Valley View Estates serves about 91 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Saunders County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120158; phone on file: 402-720-1005. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Valley View Estates's lead record
That is up 4.83 ppb from 0.57 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley View Estates is 5.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Valley View 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. Valley View Estates's 5.4 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Nebraska and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Saunders County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Valley View Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wahoo, City Of | 4,500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ashland, City Of | 3,369 | 2.03 ppb |
| Yutan, City Of | 1,274 | 0.61 ppb |
| Saunders Co Sid 8 | 925 | 2.61 ppb |
| Ceresco, Village Of | 919 | 2.52 ppb |
| Cedar Bluffs, Village Of | 600 | 1.97 ppb |
| Valparaiso, Village Of | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
| Mead, Village Of | 569 | 1.1 ppb |
| Weston, Village Of | 310 | 2.95 ppb |
| Prague, Village Of | 291 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Fremont, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fremont, 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 Valley View 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.