Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority, RI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority
Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority serves about 44 people through 5 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 Providence County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980146; phone on file: 401-829-3585. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 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. Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Rhode Island and the 3rd 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 Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority. 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
Look up your address in Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority'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 Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.