Community Water System · PWSID PR0003042

La Pica

Serves 561 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentJayuya, Puerto Rico
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Surface water treatment (LT2). 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 2012: 14 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 8 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
8Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 35% 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

200520102012 · 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: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 157% missed or late test · 829% 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. 2016-10-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  9. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance

System details

Population served561
Service connections210
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityJayuya
EPA ZIP on file00664

Areas served

  • Jayuya Municipio County

Reading this record

La Pica is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 561 people in Jayuya, 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.