Community Water System · PWSID PR0272272

Saltos Caguana

Serves 280 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateUtuado, Puerto Rico
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Lead service line inventory, Surface water treatment (SWTR). 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 1992: 45 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 41 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
3Treatment lapse2 open
41Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 68% 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 · Treatment lapse: 11995200020052007 · Treatment lapse: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 391% missed or late test · 412% 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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

16 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2007-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  12. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  13. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  25. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 20 entries
  1. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2016-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2007-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  20. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served280
Service connections104
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityUtuado
EPA ZIP on file00641

Areas served

  • Utuado, Utuado Municipio County

Reading this record

Saltos Caguana is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 280 people in Utuado, 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.