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Vega Baja Municipio, Puerto Rico

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet PR145 · Vega Baja Municipio 9 sys · 1,557 viol · #936/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.1% health
  • RANK-UPPER #936/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 6.8 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 56%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Caguas Municipio (+ 6.8 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Vega Baja Municipio ranks #936 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #12 of 72 counties in Puerto Rico. See methodology · corpus placement.

Vega Baja Municipio standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.1% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #936 of 3,254 · #12 of 72 in Puerto Rico.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Vega Baja Municipio

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Vega Baja Municipio on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Vega Baja Muni · this county · lowest San Juan Munic · near 88.9% 95.7% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Vega Baja Urbano 26,660 647 Detected
Alturas 6,242 53 -
Quebrada Arenas 4,451 0 -
Almirante Norte 4,285 163 -
Pugnado 3,556 156 Detected
Almirante Sur 2,873 153 -
Ciudad Real 1,805 22 -
Viatris Pharmaceuticals LLC 1,500 4 -
Euro Caribe Packing Company 275 359 -

Compare beyond Puerto Rico

Lower-flagged peers for Vega Baja Municipio

Cross-state counties nearest Vega Baja Municipio on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (1,557). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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