Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point, RI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point serves about 317 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 Kent County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980452; phone on file: 401-738-5660. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Rhode Island and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Kent County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point. 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 |
| Paige Associates | 120 | - |
| Alpine Nursing Home | 105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Acres Alr | 75 | 7.4 ppb |
| Blueberry Heights Housing Cooperative Co | 44 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cne - Hopkins Hill Road Entry Point 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.