Acued. Rural Turado Arriba, PR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
Acued. Rural Turado Arriba at a glance
Acued. Rural Turado Arriba serves about 745 people through 278 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caguas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0613046; phone on file: 787-727-9454. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Acued. Rural Turado Arriba's lead record
Against the period ending 2016 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acued. Rural Turado Arriba is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Acued. Rural Turado Arriba 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. Rural Turado Arriba's 4 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in PR and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Caguas Municipio County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Acued. Rural Turado Arriba. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Caguas Norte | 47,352 | 7 ppb |
| Caguas Sur | 34,261 | - |
| Acued. Com. Sector La Sierra | 1,015 | - |
| Caguas Real Utility Corp | 952 | - |
| Turabo Clusters | 520 | - |
| Acued. Rural Sect. Lozada Y Pozo Dulce | 506 | - |
| Acued. Rural Pedro Calixto | 402 | 3 ppb |
| Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued. | 312 | 3 ppb |
| Acued. Rural Casa De Piedra Inc. | 311 | - |
| Org. Resid. Del Sector La Union (Orsu) | 290 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Caguas, 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. Rural Turado Arriba 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.