Selmer Water System, 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.
About Selmer Water System
Selmer Water System serves about 20,648 people through 8,003 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 groundwater, in Mcnairy County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000615; phone on file: 731-645-7928. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Selmer Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Selmer Water System is 1.67 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.67 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 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. Selmer Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Tennessee and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Mcnairy County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Selmer Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Adamsville Water System | 9,985 | 1.6 ppb |
| Michie Water Dept | 2,825 | 2.4 ppb |
| Eastview Utility District | 2,206 | 0.9 ppb |
| Bethel Springs Water System | 940 | 0.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Selmer, 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 Selmer Water System 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.