Riverside Campground, TN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.58 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.
Riverside Campground at a glance
Riverside Campground serves about 450 people through 232 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sevier County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000925; phone on file: 865-453-7299. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 Riverside Campground is 24.75 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 24.75 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. Riverside Campground's 1.58 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Tennessee and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sevier County
10 other systems share Sevier County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Riverside Campground. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sevierville Water System | 39,885 | 2.97 ppb |
| Pigeon Forge Water Department | 14,872 | 1 ppb |
| Gatlinburg Water Dept | 8,877 | 1 ppb |
| Sevier County Water Department | 6,194 | 1 ppb |
| Webb Creek Utility District | 1,737 | 1 ppb |
| Chalet Village North | 1,203 | 1 ppb |
| East Sevier County U.D. | 815 | 1.67 ppb |
| Venture Out At Gatlinburg | 328 | 0.6 ppb |
| Norton Creek Water System | 107 | 3.08 ppb |
| Wears Valley Ranch | 75 | 1.17 ppb |
Next steps for Sevierville, TN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sevierville, 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 Riverside Campground 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.