Heritage Academy, TN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Heritage Academy at a glance
Heritage Academy serves about 100 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000952; phone on file: 931-839-6675. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heritage Academy is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Heritage Academy's 1 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Tennessee and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Putnam County
8 other systems share Putnam County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heritage Academy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cookeville Water Dept | 49,711 | 1 ppb |
| Algood Water System | 10,042 | 1 ppb |
| Cookeville Boat Dock Rd U.D. | 9,345 | 1 ppb |
| Bangham Utility District | 7,906 | 1 ppb |
| Baxter Water Department | 7,781 | 1 ppb |
| Double Springs U.D. | 6,698 | 1 ppb |
| Old Gainesboro Road U.D. | 6,608 | 1 ppb |
| Monterey Water Dept | 4,880 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Monterey, TN 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 Heritage Academy 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.