Comunidad Las Corujas, PR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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
Comunidad Las Corujas serves about 657 people through 245 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Aguas Buenas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0604016; phone on file: 787-620-2277. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Comunidad Las Corujas's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Comunidad Las Corujas is 5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
How Comunidad Las Corujas 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. Comunidad Las Corujas's 5 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in PR and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Aguas Buenas Municipio County
9 other systems share Aguas Buenas Municipio County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Comunidad Las Corujas. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aguas Buenas Urbano | 13,233 | - |
| Mulitas Centro | 854 | - |
| Asaja (Asoc. Acued. Juan Asencio Inc.) | 614 | - |
| Bayamoncito | 536 | 3 ppb |
| Acued. Madriguera | 435 | - |
| Juan Asencio 1 Sector La Tiza Inc. | 387 | - |
| Comunidad Rivera | 347 | 3 ppb |
| Acueducto Comunal Sector El Llano Inc | 320 | - |
| Las Torres Andino | 93 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Aguas Buenas, 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 Comunidad Las Corujas 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.