Community Water System · PWS AZ0403073
Forest Highlands Water Company
Operator location Flagstaff, Arizona - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 83 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,668 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,668
- People served (this PWS)
- 83
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Forest Highlands Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
83 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,037 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Forest Highlands Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (83), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,668 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,037 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #214 of 413
- Population · AZ
- 83
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 783
- County
- Coconino
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 50
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 11 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2013 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Diquat | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 1 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Forest Highlands Water Company has 83 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 31% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 83), and it ranks #15,037 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)
83 Around the middle fewer violations than 31% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Forest Highlands Water Company
83 violations on record for AZ0403073; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Arizona DEQ, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
83 violations · 1,668 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Forest Highlands Water Company
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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