South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab, RI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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
South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab serves about 232 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: RI2882117; phone on file: 401-783-8568. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 28 ppb from 28 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab is 199 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 28 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 199 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 144 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 80 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. South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Rhode Island and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Washington County
32 other systems share Washington County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab. 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 West Kingston, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Kingston, 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 South Kingstown Nursing And Rehab whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3558 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.