Baxter Healthcare Of Pr, PR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Baxter Healthcare Of Pr serves about 981 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Aibonito Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0505085; phone on file: 787-954-2228. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Baxter Healthcare Of Pr's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Baxter Healthcare Of Pr is 150 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 150 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Baxter Healthcare Of Pr 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. Baxter Healthcare Of Pr's 3 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in PR and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Aibonito Municipio County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Baxter Healthcare Of Pr. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aibonito La Plata | 16,354 | - |
| Aibonito Urbano | 5,580 | - |
| Cuyon | 521 | - |
| Cuyon Water Services Inc. | 427 | 3 ppb |
| Acueducto Comunitario Algarrobo | 147 | - |
Next steps for Aibonito, PR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Aibonito, 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 Baxter Healthcare Of Pr 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.