Community Water System · PWS PR0004114
Guaraguao
Operator location Ponce, Puerto Rico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 961 people served; 122 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 961
- People served (this PWS)
- 122
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Guaraguao standing, high SDWIS violation third
961 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,229 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Guaraguao sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (122), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (961; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,229 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #167 of 235
- Population · PR
- 122
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 360
- County
- Ponce Municipio
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 100
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 36 | 2016 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 7 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2022 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 5 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 1998 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| Atrazine | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| LASSO | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| E. COLI | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Cryptosporidium | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Guaraguao has 122 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 122), and it ranks #20,229 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
122 Higher than most more violations than 77% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Guaraguao
EPA SDWIS lists 961 people served and 360 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
122 violations · 961 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Guaraguao
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