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South Kingstown Nursing and Rehab

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
232 people
Connections
1
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
South Kingstown, RI
County
Washington
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Uranium, above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 3.6 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 2018. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

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 and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 26, 2012 to March 26, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the limit’s level, no violation

52.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 27 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 52.4 ppb, in 2020, above EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 27 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for uranium at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 183 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppm, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 1.7 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.86ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 0.78 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.86 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.78 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.8 ppm, in 2013.

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

Below EPA’s limits

2.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.1 ppb, in 2014, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead

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 7 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 and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. South Kingstown Nursing and Rehab’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 March 26, 2012 to March 26, 2018.

Testing your own tap

South Kingstown Nursing and Rehab’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.

No lab Rhode Island certifies is within 75 miles of the area South Kingstown Nursing and Rehab serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 6 certified labs for Rhode Island

Sources

PWSID RI2882117. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

Also in Washington County

All Rhode Island utilities

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