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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IA9260528

Highland High School

Operator location Muscatine, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 405 people served; 96 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

405
People served (this PWS)
96
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Highland High School standing, high SDWIS violation third

405 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Highland High School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (96), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (405; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

96
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
405
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Public/Private
Connections
2
County
Washington
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
87
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 28 2006
Arsenic MR 8 2017
Fluoride MR 8 2005
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 6 2018
TTHM MR 5 2018
Cadmium MR 4 1996
Antimony, Total MR 4 1996
Selenium MR 4 1996
Arsenic MCL 4 2013
Thallium, Total MR 4 1996
Chromium MR 4 1996
Mercury MR 4 1996
Nitrate MR 4 2004
Barium MR 4 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Highland High School has 96 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 96), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

96 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Highland High School

EPA SDWIS lists 405 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

96 violations · 405 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Highland High School

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Iowa compares on the same EPA violation measures. Iowa systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater