Comunidad Mana, Sector Lozada Inc., PR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. 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.
Comunidad Mana, Sector Lozada Inc. at a glance
Comunidad Mana, Sector Lozada Inc. serves about 240 people through 60 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 groundwater. EPA system ID: PR0724157; phone on file: 787-316-2686. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 28 ppb from 31 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Comunidad Mana, Sector Lozada Inc. is 31 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 31 ppb over 15 |
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. Comunidad Mana, Sector Lozada Inc.'s 3 ppb sits at the 14th percentile in PR and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corozal, 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 Mana, Sector Lozada Inc. 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.