Exeter Job Corps Center, RI
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 18.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Exeter Job Corps Center
Exeter Job Corps Center serves about 300 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980475; phone on file: 401-268-6003. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 17.3 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Exeter Job Corps Center is 18.8 ppb across 28 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 18.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.52 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Exeter Job Corps Center 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. Exeter Job Corps Center's 18.8 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Rhode Island and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Washington County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Exeter Job Corps Center. 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 |
What to do in your house
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 Exeter Job Corps Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3308.2 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.