Fort Payne Wastewater Treatment Plant
Fort Payne, AL · De Kalb County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.27 MGD
- Design flow
- 5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- AL0023311
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- March 2024
- Population served
- 14,877
- CWNS 2022
Fort Payne Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Fort Payne, De Kalb County, Alabama treating an average of 1.27 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 5 MGD, serving about 14,877 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, carrousels / oxidation ditches. It discharges under NPDES permit AL0023311 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2024, with 8 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 8
- Effluent violations
- 6
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
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Fort Payne 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated May 10, 2025.