Tap water · NE
Metropolitan Utilities District (Omaha)
EPA system ID NE3105507 · serves about 660,000 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Metropolitan Utilities District (Omaha) found in 2025
44 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 1 was near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEAD (90th percentile) | 12.3 ppb | 15 ppb | 82% | Near limit |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMS) | 44.4 ppb | 80 ppb | 56% | Within limit |
| ARSENIC | 4.77 ppb | 10 ppb | 48% | Within limit |
| Gross Alpha including Radon & Uranium | 6.38 pCi/l | 15 pCi/l | 43% | Within limit |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | 20.2 ppb | 60 ppb | 34% | Within limit |
| NITRATE-NITRATE | 3.19 ppm | 10 ppm | 32% | Within limit |
| FLUORIDE | 0.807 ppm | 4 ppm | 20% | Within limit |
| SODIUM | 75 ppm | 500 ppm | 15% | Within limit |
| ATRAZINE | 0.326 ppb | 3 ppb | 11% | Within limit |
| SELENIUM | 3.83 ppb | 50 ppb | 8% | Within limit |
| COLIFORM BACTERIA | 0.35 % | 5 % | 7% | Within limit |
| BARIUM | 0.102 ppm | 2 ppm | 5% | Within limit |
| COPPER (90th percentile) | 0.023 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| CHROMIUM TOTAL | 1.49 ppb | 100 ppb | 1% | Within limit |
| Spec. Conductance @25 deg. C. | 521 umhos | — | — | No federal limit |
| Dissolved Solids | 396 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Sulfate | 118 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Alkalinity (total) as CaCO3 | 112 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| LITHIUM | 92.4 μg/L | — | — | No federal limit |
| Calcium | 45 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Chloride | 26 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Chloroform | 22.6 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Silica | 20 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Temperature | 15.6 °C | — | — | No federal limit |
| Dichloroacetic acid | 14.4 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Bromodichloromethane | 12.1 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Magnesium | 11 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Hardness (total) as CaCO3 | 9 Grains Per Gallon | — | — | No federal limit |
| pH | 8.98 pH Units | — | — | No federal limit |
| Potassium | 8 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Dibromochloromethane | 5.81 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Bromochloroacetic acid | 4.97 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Trichloroacetic acid | 3.17 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Total Organic Carbon (TOC) | 2.64 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Color | 2 cobalt platinum units | — | — | No federal limit |
| Dibromoacetic acid | 1.91 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Bromoform | 0.61 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Radium-228 | 0.54 pCi/l | — | — | No federal limit |
| Radium-226 | 0.405 pCi/l | — | — | No federal limit |
| Phosphate | 0.3 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Metolachlor | 0.178 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Iron | 0.06 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Aluminum | 0.04 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Manganese | 0.002 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Metropolitan Utilities District (Omaha) water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Calcium | 45 mg/L | Great Value at 46 mg/L |
| Magnesium | 11 mg/L | St-Yorre at 11 mg/L |
| Sodium | 75 mg/L | Mattoni at 69.9 mg/L |
| Sulfate | 118 mg/L | Apollinaris at 100 mg/L |
| Chloride | 26 mg/L | Villavicencio at 25.5 mg/L |
| Potassium | 8 mg/L | Uliveto at 7.3 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
68102 · 68104 · 68105 · 68106 · 68107 · 68108 · 68110 · 68111 · 68112 · 68114 · 68116 · 68117 · 68118 · 68122 · 68124 · 68127 · 68130 · 68131 · 68132 · 68134 · 68135 · 68137 · 68142 · 68144 · 68152 · 68154 · 68157 · 68164
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.