Highlands County, Florida

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    74

  • Community Water Systems

    28

  • Systems with Violations

    16

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    21

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    02/13/2012

  • Population Served

    104,054

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    0.34%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    1

  • CWA Total Violations

    10

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    148

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.331%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    102,339

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $53,679

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    8%

  • MALE

    50,232

  • FEMALE

    52,107

  • MEDIAN AGE

    54.1

  • MULTIRACIAL

    80,289

  • WHITE

    66,090

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    9,165

  • LATINO

    22,050

  • ASIAN

    1,440

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    117

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    18

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=FL&p_fips=12055 Other .gov state water resources: https://floridadep.gov/water/source-drinking-water/content/information-drinking-water-database Additional state water resources:https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/resources/data-maps/water-quality-datahttps://sensoto.io/en/water/Florida-be1f09/