Community Water System · PWSID PR0002792

Esperanza

Serves 2,232 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentArecibo, Puerto Rico
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1992: 37 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-01.

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 lapse
31Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 57% 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

1992 · Missed or late test: 119952000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 284% missed or late test · 3111% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (1)

  1. 1992-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2018-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-07-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-07-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-07-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-07-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-07-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2018-07-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2018-07-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2018-07-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2018-07-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-07-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2018-07-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2018-07-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2018-07-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2018-07-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2018-07-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-10-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2011-08-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  12. 1992-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

System details

Population served2,232
Service connections836
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityArecibo
EPA ZIP on file00612

Areas served

  • Arecibo, Arecibo Municipio County

Reading this record

Esperanza is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,232 people in Arecibo, 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.