DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS's water?

CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 35,957, over 11,981 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

12 total violations and 4 health-based ones put CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS at the 66th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,327 of 12,903.

How CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS compares within TX

TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS carries 4, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS is from 2017-01-09 (health-based: 1993-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF HARKER HEIGHTS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,327th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.