Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo, 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. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo
Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo serves about 254 people through 95 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Barranquitas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0510055; phone on file: 787-857-1391. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo is 3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
How Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo compares
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. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo's 3 ppb sits at the 15th percentile in PR and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Barranquitas Municipio County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo. 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 |
| Comunidad Doa Mayo, Inc. | 232 | - |
| Comunidad Los Muchos | 228 | - |
| Acued. Com. Tortuguero, La Tiza, Inc. | 147 | - |
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. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.