Community Water System · PWS PR0004625
Barrancas Nuevo
Operator location Barranquitas, Puerto Rico - 44% of 374 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,379 served per SDWIS.
- 2,379
- People served (this PWS)
- 374
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 164
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Barrancas Nuevo standing, high SDWIS violation third
44% of 374 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 44% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,339 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Barrancas Nuevo sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (374), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,379 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 44% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,339 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #116 of 235
- Population · PR
- 374
- Total EPA violations on record
- 44%
- 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
- 891
- County
- Barranquitas Municipio
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 192
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 152
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 84 | 2014 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 66 | 2005 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 53 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 14 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 2010 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MCL | 3 | 2015 |
| Cryptosporidium | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Dalapon | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Endothall | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Picloram | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| LASSO | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 2 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Barrancas Nuevo has 374 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 44% of this system's own violations are health-based (164 of 374), and it ranks #12,339 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)
374 Higher than most more violations than 93% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Barrancas Nuevo
164 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PR0004625.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
374 violations · 2,379 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Barrancas Nuevo
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