Community Water System · PWS PR0004765
Cimarrona
Operator location Guayama, Puerto Rico - 5% of 63 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,976 served per SDWIS.
- 1,976
- People served (this PWS)
- 63
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cimarrona standing, mid SDWIS violation third
5% of 63 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,762 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cimarrona lands in the middle third by violation volume (63), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,976 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,762 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #126 of 235
- Population · PR
- 63
- 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
- 740
- County
- Guayama Municipio
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2006 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Chlordane | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2022 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2012 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1984 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cimarrona has 63 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 63), and it ranks #13,762 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)
63 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Cimarrona
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PR0004765.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
63 violations · 1,976 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Cimarrona
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