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Cahaba River Wastewater Treatment Plant

3900 Veona Daniels Rd, Hoover, AL 35244 · Jefferson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
2.98 MGD
Design flow
—
NPDES permit
ALL023027
Effective
Permit expires
December 2030
Population served
78,289
CWNS 2022

Cahaba River Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Hoover, Jefferson County, Alabama treating an average of 2.98 million gallons per day, serving about 78,289 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit ALL023027 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in September 2024.

Treatment technology

3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Cahaba River Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
1
Effluent violations
1

Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.

EPA enforcement history

Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Cahaba River Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
2
0 since FY2020
Penalties assessed
$750,000
all cases
Compliance actions
$588M
required by EPA orders
EPA inspections
2
latest Aug 2016

Latest case · Sep 2024

JEFFERSON COUNTY/CAHABA RIVER

Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $750,000 · Compliance actions $588M · The case also names 5 other plants, and its amounts cover all of them

Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-1995-0112.

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Key contacts

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Cahaba River Wastewater Treatment Plant: frequently asked questions

Sources and methodology

Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.

Data refreshed October 26, 2026; facility record last updated September 14, 2026.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms


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