Community Water System · PWSID PR0005587

Sabana Hoyos

Serves 2,344 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentArecibo, 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 1997: 11 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 28% 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 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · 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.
64% missed or late test · 736% 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. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served2,344
Service connections878
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityArecibo
EPA ZIP on file00612

Areas served

  • Vega Alta

Reading this record

Sabana Hoyos is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,344 people in Arecibo, 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.