Community Water System · PWS AR0000885
Highfill Water Department
Operator location Highfall, Arkansas - 81% of 69 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,970 served per SDWIS.
- 3,970
- People served (this PWS)
- 69
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 56
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Highfill Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
81% of 69 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 81% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #8,915 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Highfill Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (69), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,970; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 81% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,915 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #142 of 514
- Population · AR
- 69
- Total EPA violations on record
- 81%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,600
- County
- Benton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 56
- Monitoring Violations
- 11
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 54 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2005 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2007 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Highfill Water Department has 69 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 81% of this system's own violations are health-based (56 of 69), and it ranks #8,915 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
69 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Highfill Water Department
56 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000885.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
69 violations · 3,970 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Highfill Water Department
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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