Spring Hill Water Dept, TN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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. 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.
Spring Hill Water Dept at a glance
Spring Hill Water Dept serves about 65,840 people through 24,752 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 Maury County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000667; phone on file: 931-479-1942. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Spring Hill Water Dept'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 Spring Hill Water Dept is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.5 ppb |
How Spring Hill Water Dept 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. Spring Hill Water Dept's 0.5 ppb sits at the 14th percentile in Tennessee and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Maury County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Hill Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia Power And Water Systems | 84,617 | 1 ppb |
| Maury County Water System | 25,978 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Pleasant Water Sys #1 | 8,914 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Spring Hill, TN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Spring Hill, 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 Spring Hill Water Dept 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.