Acueducto Rural Tabor, PR
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Acueducto Rural Tabor at a glance
Acueducto Rural Tabor serves about 427 people through 160 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: PR0510065; phone on file: 787-857-2394. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Acueducto Rural Tabor's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Acueducto Rural Tabor is 13 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
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 Tabor's 13 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in PR and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Barranquitas Municipio County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Acueducto Rural Tabor. 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 |
| Acued. Comunal Comunidad Caabon Abajo | 254 | 3 ppb |
| Comunidad Doa Mayo, Inc. | 232 | - |
| Comunidad Los Muchos | 228 | - |
| Acued. Com. Tortuguero, La Tiza, Inc. | 147 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Acueducto Rural Tabor 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.