Community Water System · PWS MI0040387
Highland Greens Estates
Operator location Southfield, Michigan - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations) with 20 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,268 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,268
- People served (this PWS)
- 20
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Highland Greens Estates standing, low SDWIS violation third
20 EPA SDWIS violations on record - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,650 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Highland Greens Estates is in the lower third by violation count (20; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 2,268 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,650 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #374 of 1,375
- Population · MI
- 20
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- 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
- 907
- County
- Oakland
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1993 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1996 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Highland Greens Estates has 20 recorded EPA violations, 31% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 67% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 20), and it ranks #12,650 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)
20 Lower than most fewer violations than 67% 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 Highland Greens Estates
20 violations on record for MI0040387; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Michigan EGLE, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division
Nationwide peers
20 violations · 2,268 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Highland Greens Estates
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