Community Water System · PWSID OR4101194

Highland Ranch Estates

Serves 60 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivateBurns, Oregon
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On record since 1994: 9 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 54% of active water systems in Oregon. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 219951999 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 120052010201520202025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
78% missed or late test · 722% notice or report · 2

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2001-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  9. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections22
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBurns
EPA ZIP on file97720

Areas served

  • Harney County

Reading this record

Highland Ranch Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 60 people in Burns, Oregon. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.