Dowling Village, 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.
Dowling Village at a glance
Dowling Village serves about 2,720 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Providence County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980476; phone on file: 401-737-4111. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dowling Village is 6.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Dowling Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Rhode Island and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Providence County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dowling Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Providence-City Of | 333,142 | 1.7 ppb |
| Pawtucket Water Supply Board Veolia-Na | 98,130 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Providence-City Of | 47,961 | 0.3 ppb |
| Woonsocket Water Division | 45,828 | 6.6 ppb |
| Lincoln Water Commission | 21,664 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cumberland, Town Of | 21,235 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenville Water District | 9,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smithfield Water Supply Board | 9,460 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clear River Electric And Water District | 6,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Slatersville Public Supply | 3,403 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Warwick, RI
Look up your address in Dowling Village'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 Dowling Village whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1610 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.