Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati, RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati serves about 300 people through 125 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI1647511. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati is 2.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
How Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati 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. Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati's 2.6 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Rhode Island and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
32 other systems share Washington County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati. 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 |
Next steps for Charlestown, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charlestown, 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 Quonochontaug East Beach Water Associati whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1742.9 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.