Private Well Water Testing in Rhode Island
County-by-county USGS area-risk estimates for private wells across Rhode Island โ arsenic exceedance probability and private-well population โ plus how to test your own well at a Rhode Island-certified laboratory.
Rhode Island private-well risk summary
Counties covered
5
Rhode Island counties with modeled risk data.
People on private wells
area estimate100,082
estimated across covered Rhode Island counties.
Average arsenic risk
area estimate7%
average modeled chance a well exceeds 10 ยตg/L arsenic across covered counties.
Rhode Island counties
- Providence County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)45,579 people on private wells
- Washington County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)25,146 people on private wells
- Kent County6% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)13,020 people on private wells
- Newport County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)12,368 people on private wells
- Bristol County8% arsenic exceedance (area estimate)3,969 people on private wells
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