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Providence County, RI drinking water systems

25 community water systems serve Providence County, RI, reporting 601,402 people served in all.

8 of them (32%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 3 systems still have one unresolved.

14 rely mainly on groundwater and 11 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 26,711 lead lines, 57 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 38,716 lines of unknown material.

2 more systems are placed in Providence County, RI by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
25
People served, sum of each system's own figure
601,402
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
8
Systems with one unresolved
3
Lead service lines in inventories
26,711

Water systems serving Providence County

25 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Providence-City of Cranston and Providence 333,142 Surface water 1 0 25,785
Pawtucket Water Supply Board Veolia-Na Pawtucket, Valley Falls and 1 more 98,130 Surface water 0 0 714
East Providence-City of East Providence 47,618 Purchased surface water 3 0 29
Woonsocket Water Division Woonsocket 45,828 Surface water 1 0 85
Lincoln Water Commission Outside cities and towns 21,664 Purchased surface water 0 0 76
Town of Cumberland Cumberland Hill and Valley Falls and land outside them 21,235 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Greenville Water District Greenville 9,500 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Smithfield Water Supply Board Outside cities and towns 9,460 Purchased surface water 3 0 0
Clear River Electric and Water District Harrisville and land outside it 6,000 Groundwater 0 0 2
Slatersville Public Supply Outside cities and towns 3,403 Purchased surface water 2 0 0
Dowling Village Outside cities and towns 2,720 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Maplehill Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 750 Groundwater 0 0 0
Eleanor Slater Hospital Zambarano Unit Outside cities and towns 540 Surface water 0 0 20
Lake Forest Health and Rehabilitation Greenville 268 Groundwater 1 2 0
Village on Chopmist Hill, the Chepachet 250 Groundwater 0 0 0
Harmony Hill School, Inc. Harmony and land outside it 199 Groundwater 0 0 0
Echo Lake Water District Outside cities and towns 160 Groundwater 0 1 0
Nasonville Water District Outside cities and towns 150 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chimera Inc Chepachet 133 Groundwater 0 0 0
Glendale Water Assn Outside cities and towns 75 Groundwater 0 0 0
Abbey Lane Community Assn., Inc. Outside cities and towns 45 Groundwater 0 0 0
Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority Chepachet 43 Groundwater 0 0 0
Foster Senior Housing Inc. Outside cities and towns 31 Groundwater 4 2 0
Sunset Cove Properties LLC Outside cities and towns 30 Groundwater 0 0 0
Jemp 1 LLC Outside cities and towns 28 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Providence County

2 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Scituate High School & Middle School County on record 1,426 Groundwater 0 0 0
Providence-City of - Whipple County on record 471 Purchased surface water 2 0 0

Cities and towns in Providence County

12 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations