Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant
1902 Gatchell Rd, San Diego, CA 92106 · San Diego County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 140.8 MGD
- Design flow
- 240 MGD
- NPDES permit
- CA0107409
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2031
- Population served
- 2,222,389
- CWNS 2022
Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in San Diego, San Diego County, California treating an average of 140.8 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 240 MGD, serving about 2,222,389 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit CA0107409 (effective), which expires in April 2031, with 1689 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1689
- Effluent violations
- 19
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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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 March 4, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · FOG · Equalization tank · all terms