Community Water System · PWSID PR0476334

Comunidad El Frio

Serves 48 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateOrocovis, Puerto Rico
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Lead service line inventory, Surface water treatment (SWTR). 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 2007: 46 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 43 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse2 open
43Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

20052007 · Treatment lapse: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 92025 · Missed or late test: 92025 · Missed or late test: 92025 · Missed or late test: 92025 · Missed or late test: 92025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 293% missed or late test · 432% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (4)

  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. 2007-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  13. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  14. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
Show the other 21 entries
  1. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2016-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2007-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

System details

Population served48
Service connections15
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOrocovis
EPA ZIP on file00720

Areas served

  • Orocovis, Orocovis Municipio County

Reading this record

Comunidad El Frio is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 48 people in Orocovis, 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.