Lawrence Sunset Cove Association, RI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Lawrence Sunset Cove Association serves about 36 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Newport County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI2980003; phone on file: 401-369-1766. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.6 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawrence Sunset Cove Association is 22 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 22 ppb over 15 |
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. Lawrence Sunset Cove Association's 0.8 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Rhode Island and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Newport County
11 other systems share Newport County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawrence Sunset Cove Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newport-City Of | 42,155 | 4.4 ppb |
| Portsmouth Water & Fire District | 17,090 | 4.8 ppb |
| North Tiverton Fire District | 8,969 | 1.9 ppb |
| Naval Station, Newport | 7,870 | 7.7 ppb |
| Jamestown Water Department | 3,348 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall | 3,213 | 3 ppb |
| Stone Bridge Fire District | 2,793 | - |
| United States Navy -Fort Adams | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowlark, Inc. | 183 | - |
| Heritage Park Home Co-Operative | 60 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Tiverton, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tiverton, RI may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lawrence Sunset Cove Association 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.