:-0 !! I had not; PFAS is new to me by name and I'm ruffling through some of the content now - wouldn't ya know that North Providence falls into the "Red = Total PFAS detected at a total greater than 20 ppt" category. I'm learning a lot today; thank you very much, kind Redditor!

Thank you for sharing your experience and for mentioning BAL and providing their #, that's very nice of you! I'm going to check out their site and plan to give them a call in the near future - my curiosity is piqued as to what the test results will be, that is for sure!

Whoa! Now that you mention it, our toilet does get a discolored ring around the water line in about a weeks' time, and that is a pretty new development. It's a fairly new toilet (2 years old, maybe) so it's not like it is old and scratched or anything. And we work from home so it's not like the water is stagnant in there for any extended amount of time. I hadn't associated the two events before.. thanks for sharing this (although I'm sorry that you are also experiencing this annoyance!)

>n the hopes of selling you a water purification system. Lowes I think does this also.

Noted; thank you! I've def. walked by the spinning carousel of test kits at the Home Depot check out before but along the lines of what you mentioned, figured there was a bit of a catch, so to speak. I'll have to stop by Lowes or Home Depot and grab one to check out the details. Appreciate the comment!

Thank you! I'm a fellow r/hydrohomies subscriber and will keep them in mind if we decide to explore more extensive filtration. Appreciate you mentioning that community! : )

Hello! I have not tested the water here before. I'm not yet aware of how much a test may or may not cost - when I did some Google searching, found that health.ri.gov mostly references well water testing but I/we do not have a well. Also https://health.ri.gov/find/labs/drinkingwater/ speaks to RIDOH Certified Drinking Water Testing labs - but it also says they do not endorse or recommend any of the certified laboratories listed (???) so honestly I was just confused and figured to ask here for thoughts and recommendations.