Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc., RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
About Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc.
Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc. serves about 154 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI1900053; phone on file: 401-539-7490. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc.'s lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc. is 4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
How Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc. 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. Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc.'s 4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Rhode Island and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Washington County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc.. 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 Hope Valley, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hope Valley, 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 Canonchet Cliffs Water Association Inc. 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.