Leadmine Bend Water Assoc., TN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Leadmine Bend Water Assoc.
Leadmine Bend Water Assoc. serves about 120 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Union County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0008220; phone on file: 419-852-2707. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Leadmine Bend Water Assoc.'s lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Leadmine Bend Water Assoc. is 16 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.86 ppb |
| 2016 | 16 ppb over 15 |
Against other Tennessee systems
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. Leadmine Bend Water Assoc.'s 1.5 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Tennessee and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Union County
3 other systems share Union County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Leadmine Bend Water Assoc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Luttrell-Blaine-Corryton U.D. | 10,529 | 1 ppb |
| Maynardville Water Dept | 7,940 | 2 ppb |
| Old Hickory Wat Co-Union County | 342 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sharps Chapel, 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 Leadmine Bend Water Assoc. 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.