Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1, TN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1 serves about 7,895 people through 3,249 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Moore County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000416; phone on file: 931-759-4297. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1'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 Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1 is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1 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. Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1's 0.1 ppb sits at the 3rd percentile in Tennessee and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Moore County
1 other system shares Moore County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #2 | 289 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lynchburg, 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 Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.D. #1 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.