Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority
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
- 44 people
- Connections
- 5
- Water source
- Groundwater
- Based in
- Glocester, RI
- County
- Providence
- Owner
- Local government
The ZIP code it serves
The short answer
Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.
What was found
Nitrate and arsenic: Rhode Island’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2022, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.
Fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from April 22, 2013 to April 16, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.
Below EPA’s limits3
Fluoride
Forms or is added in treatment
1.4ppm
Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019
Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppm, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 1.4 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”
Nitrate
Comes from the source
0.36ppm
Highest yearly average, 2022
Averaged by year, the highest was 0.36 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.25 ppm, in 2016.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
Chromium (total)
Comes from the source
1.0ppb
Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019
2019: not found
Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.
What handles it
- NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Chromium (Hexavalent) Reduction”
- NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Chromium Reduction”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
- Arsenic
- Lead
Violations since 2016
No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.
What this report can’t tell you
Everything else. Nitrate and arsenic results here are Rhode Island’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority’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 2022; EPA’s compliance samples are from April 22, 2013 to April 16, 2019.
Testing your own tap
The 3 labs Rhode Island certifies closest to the area Laurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Microbac Laboratory
Dayville, CT · about 8 miles
Rhode Island Department of Health, State Health Lab
Providence, RI · about 15 miles
Website: Rhode Island Department of Health, State Health Lab
Eurofins Warwick
Warwick, RI · about 19 miles
Sources
- EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data, file of Oct. 15, 2026
- EPA SDWA bulk download (SDWIS federal data), 2026 Q3
- CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, yearly averages Rhode Island supplied to CDC, 2020 to 2023, read Oct. 8, 2026. TapBuff’s comparisons with EPA’s limits are its own, not CDC’s or Rhode Island’s.
- EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019, file of Feb. 5, 2024
- Certified labs: RIDOH, certified drinking water testing labs, read Oct. 16, 2026; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer
- Limits and goals: each contaminant’s page, with its EPA source.
- How this page is built: methodology.
PWSID RI2980146. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.
What to do next
- Nothing here is above a health goalIn EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility. They don’t cover everything, which is why the next step matters.Every contaminant TapBuff tracks
- Get the utility’s own reportLaurel Crest Glocester Housing Authority must send you a water quality report every year. It covers contaminants this page does not show, and has newer results than EPA’s national file for the ones here that come from it.How to read it
- Test your own tap for leadYour service line, solder and fixtures decide the lead at your faucet, not the utility’s average.Lead in your water: what to do
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded