Webb Creek Utility District, 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 Webb Creek Utility District
Webb Creek Utility District serves about 1,737 people through 681 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Sevier County, Tennessee. EPA system ID: TN0000261; phone on file: 865-430-3640. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
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 Webb Creek Utility District is 3.03 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.03 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.5 ppb |
How Webb Creek Utility District 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. Webb Creek Utility District's 1 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in Tennessee and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Sevier County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Webb Creek Utility District. 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 |
| 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 |
| Wears Valley Ranch | 75 | 1.17 ppb |
Next steps for Gatlinburg, TN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gatlinburg, 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 Webb Creek Utility District 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.