Comunidad Sector Los Gomez, PR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). 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.
About Comunidad Sector Los Gomez
Comunidad Sector Los Gomez serves about 144 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Lorenzo Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0666096; phone on file: 787-736-1125. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Comunidad Sector Los Gomez's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Comunidad Sector Los Gomez is 6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
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 Sector Los Gomez's 6 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in PR and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share San Lorenzo Municipio County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Comunidad Sector Los Gomez. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| San Lorenzo Urbano | 26,470 | - |
| Jagual | 4,021 | - |
| Espino | 2,643 | - |
| Acued.Comunal Sect. Manuel Diaz | 331 | - |
| Asoc. Pro Acueducto Hato Cuchilla Inc. | 256 | 3 ppb |
| Acueducto Sector Pachin Inc. | 243 | 3 ppb |
| Macanea / Espino | 224 | - |
| Asoc. Vecinos Sect. Los Oquendo | 214 | - |
| Sector Los Diaz | 197 | 1 ppb |
| El Cerro Corp. | 192 | - |
Next steps for San Lorenzo, PR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Lorenzo, 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 Sector Los Gomez 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.