Is HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH's water safe to drink?
HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 16,000 people through 5,652 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
107 total violations and 17 health-based ones put HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH at the 92th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,050 of 12,903.
Against the PA average
HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH's 17 health-based violations sit above the PA average of 5.5, across 475 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH's record does not cover
This is what HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 17 health-based violations on file for HIGHRIDGE WATER AUTH - 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.