Transient Non-Community · PWSID PR0468054

Martex Farm Paso Seco

Serves 42 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSanta Isabel, Puerto Rico

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On record since 2011: 12 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

1Treatment lapse

10Missed or late test

1Notice or report

More violations on record than 31% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

8% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 108% notice or report · 1

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

34 ppb

6 ppb

3 ppb

0.1 ppb

Every violation on record

2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2013-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2012-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2011-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served	42
Service connections	16
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Transient Non-Community
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Santa Isabel
EPA ZIP on file	00757

Areas served

Santa Isabel, Santa Isabel Municipio County

Reading this record

Martex Farm Paso Seco is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 42 people in Santa Isabel, 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.