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Church Woods

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
98 people
Connections
28
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Charlestown, RI
County
Washington
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

02813

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, nitrate and arsenic: Rhode Island’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Fluoride, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Nov. 9, 2017 to Dec. 18, 2017. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

18ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021

Averaged by year, the highest was 18 ppb, in 2021: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 20.3 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.82ppm

Highest yearly average, 2017

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.82 ppm, in 2017, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.6ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 1.6 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 1.6 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.7 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate and arsenic results here are Rhode Island’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Church Woods’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Rhode Island cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Nov. 9, 2017 to Dec. 18, 2017.

Testing your own tap

Church Woods’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Rhode Island certifies.

The 3 labs Rhode Island certifies closest to the area Church Woods serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

All 6 certified labs for Rhode Island

Sources

PWSID RI2980017. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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