Espino, PR Water Quality
Espino: EPA violation history, explained
Espino has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,643 people through 990 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Espino has 133 violations on record in total, 38 of them health-based - ranking it 405th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 97th percentile nationally.
How Espino compares within PR
PR's 120 covered systems average 48.9 health-based violations each; Espino carries 38, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Espino is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2019-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/05/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Espino'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; Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 this data is and is not
This is what Espino 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 Espino's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 405th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.