Community Water System · PWSID PR0003022

Sanamuerto

Serves 1,498 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentMorovis, 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 1997: 23 violations. 3 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 13 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-03-01.

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3Over the limit
3Treatment lapse1 open
13Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 47% 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: 12015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 313% treatment lapse · 357% missed or late test · 1317% 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)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0750 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0660 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0640 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)
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 (2)

  1. 2016-10-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  2. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back 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. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-02-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-10-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  13. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0750 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0660 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  23. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served1,498
Service connections561
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMorovis
EPA ZIP on file00720

Areas served

    Reading this record

    Sanamuerto is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,498 people in Morovis, 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.