Cotto Laurel, PR Water Quality
Is Cotto Laurel's water safe to drink?
Cotto Laurel had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 12,979 people through 4,861 service connections.
Cotto Laurel's record against the rest of the country
Cotto Laurel has 262 violations on record in total, 114 of them health-based - ranking it 56th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 100th percentile nationally.
Against the PR average
Cotto Laurel's 114 health-based violations sit above the PR average of 48.9, across 120 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
Cotto Laurel's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2025-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/05/2026.
The concern categories on record
Cotto Laurel'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
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Carbon, Total
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 Cotto Laurel's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Cotto Laurel's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Cotto Laurel's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 56th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.