Echo Lake Water District, RI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 21 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Echo Lake Water District serves about 160 people through 64 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Providence County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980414; phone on file: 401-309-8494. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Echo Lake Water District's lead record
That is up 19 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Echo Lake Water District is 21 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 6 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. Echo Lake Water District's 21 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Rhode Island and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Providence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Echo Lake Water District. 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) |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Echo Lake Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1930 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. 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.