Bethel Village Water Assn, RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Bethel Village Water Assn at a glance
Bethel Village Water Assn serves about 180 people through 53 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI1000045; phone on file: 401-623-0041. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bethel Village Water Assn's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel Village Water Assn is 5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
How Bethel Village Water Assn compares
Of the 78 Rhode Island systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.1 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 17 have gone over at some point. Bethel Village Water Assn's 5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Rhode Island and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
32 other systems share Washington County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bethel Village Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Westerly Water Department | 35,298 | 3.6 ppb |
| North Kingstown Town Of | 27,732 | 1.3 ppb |
| Veolia Water Wakefield Rhode Island Inc | 21,225 | 3.2 ppb |
| University Of Rhode Island | 19,354 | 6.4 ppb |
| Block Island Water Company | 9,999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Narragansett Water System-Point Judith | 8,210 | 4.1 ppb |
| South Kingstown-South Shore | 6,170 | 1 ppb |
| Narragansett Water Dept-North End | 4,432 | 1.2 ppb |
| Kingston Water District | 3,968 | 1 ppb |
| Richmond, Town Of | 2,671 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Ashaway, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ashaway, RI 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 Bethel Village Water Assn 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.