Community Water System · PWSID PR0401024

Asoc. Vec. Com. Helechales

Serves 263 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAdjuntas, Puerto Rico
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2014: 7 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
3Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 17% of active water systems in Puerto Rico. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Over the limit: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Over the limit: 1201520202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% over the limit · 214% treatment lapse · 143% missed or late test · 314% notice or report · 1

Across Puerto Rico, 83% of violations are missed or late tests and 9% are water over a limit.

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  5. 2014-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2014-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served263
Service connections98
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAdjuntas
EPA ZIP on file00601

Areas served

  • Adjuntas, Adjuntas Municipio County

Reading this record

Asoc. Vec. Com. Helechales is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 263 people in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.