Community Water System · PWSID PR0004584

Garzas

Serves 3,402 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentAdjuntas, Puerto Rico
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On record since 2006: 9 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 24% 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

20052006 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 156% missed or late test · 533% notice or report · 3

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2019-04-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2011-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,402
Service connections1,274
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAdjuntas
EPA ZIP on file00601

Areas served

  • Adjuntas, Adjuntas Municipio County

Reading this record

Garzas is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 3,402 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.