Arecibo Municipio, PR
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Arecibo Municipio in Puerto Rico
Arecibo Municipio, PR is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 5 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 11 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 31/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 98.2K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 3 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (11)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| ARECIBO URBANO | 61,119 | 3 |
| SANTANA | 19,574 | 0 |
| SABANA HOYOS | 15,876 | 16 |
| GARROCHALES | 7,439 | 0 |
| MIRAFLORES | 5,596 | 0 |
| BAJADERO | 3,420 | 0 |
| SABANA HOYOS | 2,344 | 0 |
| ESPERANZA | 2,232 | 4 |
| SAN RAFAEL | 1,412 | 0 |
| RIO ARRIBA | 753 | 0 |
| SUPERACUEDUCTO | 25 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (5)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Industrial C&s of Pr LLC Arecibo Plant | 52.7K lbs |
| 2 | Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd | 44.1K lbs |
| 3 | Prepa-Cambalache Combustion Turbine Plant | 1.1K lbs |
| 4 | Thermo King Puerto Rico Manufactura Inc. | 268 lbs |
| 5 | Original Footwear LLC | 10 lbs |
Cities in Arecibo Municipio (1)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.