Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall, RI
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
About Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall
Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall serves about 3,213 people through 711 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Newport County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI1900042; phone on file: 401-624-8432. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
How Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall 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. Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall's 3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Rhode Island and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Newport County
11 other systems share Newport County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newport-City Of | 42,155 | 4.4 ppb |
| Portsmouth Water & Fire District | 17,090 | 4.8 ppb |
| North Tiverton Fire District | 8,969 | 1.9 ppb |
| Naval Station, Newport | 7,870 | 7.7 ppb |
| Jamestown Water Department | 3,348 | 1.1 ppb |
| Stone Bridge Fire District | 2,793 | - |
| United States Navy -Fort Adams | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowlark, Inc. | 183 | - |
| Heritage Park Home Co-Operative | 60 | 3 ppb |
| Four Seasons Mhp Co-Op Assn. | 40 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tiverton, 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 Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall 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. 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.