Barranquitas Urbano, PR Water Quality
Is Barranquitas Urbano's water safe to drink?
Barranquitas Urbano had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 3,538, over 1,325 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Barranquitas Urbano has 426 violations on record in total, 75 of them health-based - ranking it 131th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 99th percentile nationally.
Against the PR average
Among the 120 PR systems in this dataset, the average is 48.9 health-based violations - Barranquitas Urbano's 75 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Barranquitas Urbano's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2024-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/05/2026.
The concern categories on record
Barranquitas Urbano'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: Carbon, Total
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 Barranquitas Urbano's record does not cover
This is what Barranquitas Urbano 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. This record - 75 health-based violations on file for Barranquitas Urbano - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.