Community Water System · PWSID PR0005186

Guayabota

Serves 1,028 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentYabucoa, Puerto Rico
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 1997: 31 violations. 15 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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
15Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 53% 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

1997 · Missed or late test: 12000200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Treatment lapse: 62018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
48% treatment lapse · 1529% missed or late test · 923% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (4)

  1. 2018-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2018-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2018-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2018-05-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-04-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-03-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-02-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-01-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-08-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-05-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-04-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-02-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  2. 2016-05-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served1,028
Service connections385
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityYabucoa
EPA ZIP on file00767

Areas served

  • Yabucoa Municipio County

Reading this record

Guayabota is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,028 people in Yabucoa, 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.