Choctaw Estates, Llc, TN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Choctaw Estates, Llc
Choctaw Estates, Llc serves about 105 people through 51 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oklahoma County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: OK2005539; phone on file: 865-850-0679. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.2 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Choctaw Estates, Llc is 3.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3.2 ppb |
How Choctaw Estates, Llc compares
Of the 453 Tennessee systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 10 have gone over at some point. Choctaw Estates, Llc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Tennessee and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Next steps for Knoxville, TN
Look up your address in Choctaw Estates, Llc'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 Choctaw Estates, Llc 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.