Wears Valley Ranch, TN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.17 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 Wears Valley Ranch
Wears Valley Ranch serves about 75 people through 28 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: TN0008140; phone on file: 865-868-2059. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wears Valley Ranch is 1.86 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.17 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.31 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Wears Valley Ranch's 1.17 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Tennessee and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Sevier County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wears Valley Ranch. 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 |
| Riverside Campground | 450 | 1.58 ppb |
| Venture Out At Gatlinburg | 328 | 0.6 ppb |
| Norton Creek Water System | 107 | 3.08 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 Wears Valley Ranch 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.