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Highland Park Community

What EPA’s and Florida’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
100 people
Connections
47
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Lake Wales, FL
County
Polk
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), uranium, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate and arsenic: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 24, 2020 to Nov. 8, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

96ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 15.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 96 ppb, in 2021, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 15.7 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 62.4 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

27.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 3.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 27.4 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 3.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 27.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

7.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.0 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.24ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.24 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.27 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.12ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 4

2024, one sample: 0.088 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.12 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.088 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.1 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction, Uranium

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), Uranium

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 21 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), uranium, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate and arsenic results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Highland Park Community’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Florida’s results run from Feb. 24, 2020 to Nov. 8, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Highland Park Community’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Florida certifies.

No lab Florida certifies is within 75 miles of the area Highland Park Community serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories: Coliform and E. coli testing for private wells at the Jacksonville and Miami labs. Collection kits come from your county health department, and the sample has to reach the lab on ice the same day it is collected. $40 for private testing through the state lab. Well Water Testing, Florida Department of Health.

All 212 certified labs for Florida

Sources

PWSID FL6531052. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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