Barcelona, PR
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 42 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 Barcelona
Barcelona serves about 214 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Rio Grande Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0661046; phone on file: 787-568-3224. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Barcelona's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Barcelona is 42 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 42 ppb over 15 |
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. Barcelona's 42 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in PR and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Rio Grande Municipio County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Barcelona. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Guzman Arriba | 2,662 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Barcelona 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.