Is BARRANCAS NUEVO's water safe to drink?
BARRANCAS NUEVO has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,520 people through 944 service connections.
BARRANCAS NUEVO's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BARRANCAS NUEVO ranks 154th by violation burden (99th percentile) - 190 violations total, 69 health-baseds.
Against the PR average
BARRANCAS NUEVO's 69 health-based violations sit above the PR average of 46.1, across 103 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
BARRANCAS NUEVO's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2016-02-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/05/2026.
The concern categories on record
BARRANCAS NUEVO's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What BARRANCAS NUEVO's record does not cover
This is what BARRANCAS NUEVO reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and BARRANCAS NUEVO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 154th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.