Saugatucket Springs, RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
Saugatucket Springs at a glance
Saugatucket Springs serves about 110 people through 1 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: RI2980423; phone on file: 401-941-2900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 7 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saugatucket Springs is 8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
How Saugatucket Springs 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. Saugatucket Springs's 1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Rhode Island and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Washington County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saugatucket Springs. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Providence, 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 Saugatucket Springs 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.