Newport Water Works, NH
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 ppb (monitoring period 2017-2019). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Newport Water Works at a glance
Newport Water Works serves about 5,000 people through 1,601 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Sullivan County, New Hampshire. EPA system ID: NH1741010. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 5 ppb from 9 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newport Water Works is 15 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
Against other New Hampshire systems
Of the 124 New Hampshire systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 16 ppb; 62 are over 15 ppb right now and 64 have gone over at some point. Newport Water Works's 14 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in New Hampshire and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Sullivan County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newport Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Claremont Water Dept | 9,000 | 2 ppb |
| Village Dist Of Eastman | 3,400 | 16 ppb |
| Charlestown Water Works | 2,850 | 19 ppb |
| Sunapee Water Works | 1,680 | - |
| Meriden Village Water Dist | 750 | - |
| Sullivan County Complex | 625 | - |
| Georges Mills Water Works | 500 | - |
| Plainfield Water Dept | 284 | - |
| Windy Acres | 180 | - |
| Meadowview Apts | 58 | - |
Next steps for Newport, NH
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newport, NH 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 Newport Water Works 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.