Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued., PR
Lead detected, under the action levels
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. 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.
Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued. at a glance
Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued. serves about 312 people through 85 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caguas Municipio County, PR. EPA system ID: PR0613036; phone on file: 787-286-3662. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued. is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 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. Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued.'s 3 ppb sits at the 22nd percentile in PR and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Caguas Municipio County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Caguas Norte | 47,352 | 7 ppb |
| Caguas Sur | 34,261 | - |
| Acued. Com. Sector La Sierra | 1,015 | - |
| Caguas Real Utility Corp | 952 | - |
| Acued. Rural Turado Arriba | 745 | 4 ppb |
| Turabo Clusters | 520 | - |
| Acued. Rural Sect. Lozada Y Pozo Dulce | 506 | - |
| Acued. Rural Pedro Calixto | 402 | 3 ppb |
| Acued. Rural Casa De Piedra Inc. | 311 | - |
| Org. Resid. Del Sector La Union (Orsu) | 290 | - |
Next steps for Caguas, PR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Caguas, 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 Parc. Nuevas Canaboncito Acued. 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.