Telemark Village, RI
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Telemark Village at a glance
Telemark Village serves about 82 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: VT0005571; phone on file: 401-246-0050. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Telemark Village's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Telemark Village is 419 ppb across 21 monitoring periods, 13 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 14.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 348 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 348 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 44.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 44.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 119 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 119 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 419 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 419 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 20 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. Telemark Village's 0.6 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Rhode Island and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Barrington, RI
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Barrington, 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 Telemark Village 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.