Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co, RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co at a glance
Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co serves about 44 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2814410; phone on file: 401-737-6500. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
Against other Rhode Island systems
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. Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co's 1 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Rhode Island and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Kent County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kent County Water Authority | 94,107 | 2.1 ppb |
| Warwick-City Of | 73,289 | 2.09 ppb |
| Cne - New London Turnpike Entry Point | 9,999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warwick-Potowomut | 2,163 | 1.5 ppb |
| Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point | 317 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paige Associates | 120 | - |
| Alpine Nursing Home | 105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Acres Alr | 75 | 7.4 ppb |
Next steps for Warwick, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warwick, 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 Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co 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.