Community Water System · PWSID PR0004324

Penuelas

Serves 17,320 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentPenuelas, 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: 100 violations. 2 over the limit · 5 treatment lapses · 89 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-01.

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

2Over the limit
5Treatment lapse
89Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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: 11995200020052006 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362017 · Missed or late test: 362018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Missed or late test: 182018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Missed or late test: 222019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 25% treatment lapse · 589% missed or late test · 894% notice or report · 4

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)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0720 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)
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.

Open now (1)

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2019-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-08-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-08-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01p-IsopropyltolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 47 entries
  1. 2019-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-04-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-04-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-03-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-03-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-03-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-02-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-02-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-02-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-08-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-08-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-08-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-07-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-07-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  22. 2017-05-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-05-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-05-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-03-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  26. 2017-03-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  27. 2017-03-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  28. 2017-02-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  29. 2017-02-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  30. 2017-02-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  31. 2017-01-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  32. 2017-01-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  33. 2017-01-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  34. 2016-10-01E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  35. 2016-10-01Cryptosporidium ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  36. 2016-10-01Turbidity ×2Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  37. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  38. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0720 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  39. 2016-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  40. 2016-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  41. 2015-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  42. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  43. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2011-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  45. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  46. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  47. 1992-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

System details

Population served17,320
Service connections6,487
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPenuelas
EPA ZIP on file00624

Areas served

  • Penuelas, Penuelas Municipio County

Reading this record

Penuelas is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 17,320 people in Penuelas, 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.