Highwood, IL Water Quality
Is Highwood's water safe to drink?
Highwood's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. Population served: 5,335, over 1,257 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Highwood has 13 violations on record in total, 0 of them health-based - ranking it 10,264th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 20th percentile nationally.
How Highwood compares within IL
IL's 572 covered systems average 5.1 health-based violations each; Highwood carries 0, 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 Highwood is from 2026-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is Highwood's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 0 health-based violations on file for Highwood - 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.