United States Navy -Fort Adams, RI
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About United States Navy -Fort Adams
United States Navy -Fort Adams serves about 320 people through 45 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Newport County, Rhode Island. EPA system ID: RI1900046; phone on file: 401-841-6376. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
United States Navy -Fort Adams's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for United States Navy -Fort Adams is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. United States Navy -Fort Adams's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Rhode Island and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Newport County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than United States Navy -Fort Adams. 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 |
| Tiverton Water Authority, Town Hall | 3,213 | 3 ppb |
| Stone Bridge Fire District | 2,793 | - |
| Meadowlark, Inc. | 183 | - |
| Heritage Park Home Co-Operative | 60 | 3 ppb |
| Four Seasons Mhp Co-Op Assn. | 40 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in United States Navy -Fort Adams'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 United States Navy -Fort Adams 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.