Palmer WWTP
1392 S Brooks Rd, Palmer, AK 99645 · Matanuska-Susitna County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.7 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- AK0022497
- Effective
- Permit expires
- February 2030
- Population served
- 8,000
- CWNS 2022
Palmer WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska treating an average of 0.7 million gallons per day, serving about 8,000 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit AK0022497 (effective), which expires in February 2030, with 11 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in August 2021.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Palmer WWTP.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 11
- Effluent violations
- 11
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 Palmer WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $192,162
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $8.6M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Aug 2021
CITY OF PALMER WWTP
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $192,162 · Compliance actions $8.6M
EPA's description of the case:
“On December 22, 2016, the United States and State of Alaska entered into a Consent Decree with the City of Palmer, Alaska, resolving violations of the Clean Water Act by the City at its municipal…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 10-2015-0082.
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Every action against Palmer WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
Decision-makers at Palmer WWTP.
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Palmer WWTP: 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 15, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms