HIGHLAND CITY: EPA violation history, explained
HIGHLAND CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 22,000 people through 5,824 service connections.
How this compares nationally
HIGHLAND CITY has 299 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,318th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 74th percentile nationally.
How HIGHLAND CITY compares within UT
Among the 145 UT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.8 health-based violations - HIGHLAND CITY's 5 is above 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 HIGHLAND CITY is from 2018-12-02 (health-based: 2018-12-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HIGHLAND CITY'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); Groundwater Rule
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
HIGHLAND CITY'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. This record - 5 health-based violations on file for HIGHLAND CITY - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.