Cotto Laurel

Water Quality Snapshot: Cotto Laurel

Cotto Laurel is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 13,860 residents in Ponce, Puerto Rico (Ponce Municipio County) through 5,191 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 475 total violations for this system , of which 204 (43%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 256 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is CARBON, TOTAL, recorded in 70 violations (TT, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Puerto Rico, EPA tracks 458 public water systems serving 3,328,141 people, with 164,144 cumulative violations and 34,657 health-based violations on record. About 100% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 358.4 violations. Statewide, 40 of 99 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (40.4%).

Cotto Laurel's 475 violations sit above the Puerto Rico average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.