Knox-Chapman Utility District, TN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.64 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.
Knox-Chapman Utility District at a glance
Knox-Chapman Utility District serves about 41,311 people through 17,213 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Knox County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000367; phone on file: 865-577-4497. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.64 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Knox-Chapman Utility District is 8.37 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.64 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.37 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.97 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. Knox-Chapman Utility District's 3.64 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Tennessee and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Knox County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Knox-Chapman Utility District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub | 254,671 | 0.6 ppb |
| First U.D. Of Knox County | 115,531 | 1 ppb |
| Hallsdale-Powell U.D. | 84,315 | 1 ppb |
| West Knox Utility District | 77,825 | 1 ppb |
| Northeast Knox U.D. | 27,941 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Knoxville, TN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Knoxville, 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 Knox-Chapman Utility District 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.