Rye Water Dist, NH
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Rye Water Dist at a glance
Rye Water Dist serves about 4,300 people through 1,702 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 groundwater, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. EPA system ID: NH2041010. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rye Water Dist is 0 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Rye Water Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in New Hampshire and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
185 other systems share Rockingham County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rye Water Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Portsmouth Water Works | 33,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salem Water Dept | 21,080 | 2 ppb |
| Derry Water Dept | 17,528 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seabrook Water Dept | 14,000 | 3 ppb |
| Exeter Water Dept | 12,236 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pease Trade Port | 9,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hampstead Area Water | 7,153 | 2 ppb |
| Londonderry | 6,255 | 4 ppb |
| Newmarket Water Works | 5,030 | 2 ppb |
| Raymond Water Dept | 3,300 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Rye, NH
Look up your address in Rye Water Dist'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 Rye Water Dist 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.