Acueducto Rural San Jose, PR

Above the federal action level

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 161 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.

About Acueducto Rural San Jose

Acueducto Rural San Jose serves about 70 people through 21 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. EPA system ID: PR0754127. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Lead results over time

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acueducto Rural San Jose is 161 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Where this result ranks

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 Rural San Jose's 161 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in PR and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Acueducto Rural San Jose whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 4540 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).

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.