Is CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS's water safe to drink?
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 8,521 people get their water from it, across 3,252 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS has 9 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,589th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 49th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS is from 2020-04-07 (health-based: 2010-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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 RICHLAND HILLS'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 RICHLAND HILLS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,589th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.