Community Water System · PWS PR0422074
La Cuesta
Operator location Coamo, Puerto Rico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 172 people served; 922 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 172
- People served (this PWS)
- 922
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 188
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
La Cuesta standing, high SDWIS violation third
172 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
La Cuesta sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (922), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (172; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 922
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 172
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 64
- County
- Coamo Municipio
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 184
- Monitoring Violations
- 688
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 584 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 184 | 2001 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 56 | 2005 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 47 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2007 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
La Cuesta has 922 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (188 of 922), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
922 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 La Cuesta
EPA SDWIS lists 172 people served and 64 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
922 violations · 172 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.
What to do with La Cuesta
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Puerto Rico compares on the same EPA violation measures. Puerto Rico systems
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