Acueducto Garzas Juncos, 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.
Who runs the water here
Acueducto Garzas Juncos serves about 460 people through 172 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Adjuntas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0401234; phone on file: 787-829-6306. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acueducto Garzas Juncos is 10 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 10 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. Acueducto Garzas Juncos's 3 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in PR and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Adjuntas Municipio County
15 other systems share Adjuntas Municipio County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Acueducto Garzas Juncos. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Garzas | 3,354 | - |
| Adjuntas Urbano | 2,870 | - |
| Yahuecas | 2,665 | 6 ppb |
| Guilarte | 1,231 | - |
| Saltillo Vaca | 798 | - |
| Juan Gonzalez | 500 | 3 ppb |
| Comunidad Juan Hernandez | 300 | 5 ppb |
| Pellejas | 295 | - |
| Asoc. Vec. Com. Helechales | 263 | - |
| Asociacion Acueducto Reventon | 212 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Adjuntas, 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 Acueducto Garzas Juncos 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.