Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque, PR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque
Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque serves about 101 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Barranquitas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0510225; phone on file: 787-857-1846. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
Against other PR systems
Of the 111 PR systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 5 ppb; 10 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque's 3 ppb sits at the 7th percentile in PR and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Barranquitas Municipio County
11 other systems share Barranquitas Municipio County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Las Bocas | 11,022 | - |
| Barranquitas Urbano | 3,538 | - |
| Barrancas Nuevo | 2,520 | - |
| Acued. Com. Bo. Quebradillas | 1,762 | 3 ppb |
| Helechal-Guayabo | 720 | 3 ppb |
| Acueducto Comunal Barrancas Centro, Inc. | 534 | 3 ppb |
| Acueducto Rural Tabor | 427 | 13 ppb |
| Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo | 254 | 3 ppb |
| Comunidad Doa Mayo, Inc. | 232 | - |
| Comunidad Los Muchos | 228 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Barranquitas, PR may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Acued. Caabon Sector El Parque whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.