Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility
302 Burns Drive, Yuba City, CA 95991 · Sutter County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 5.16 MGD
- Design flow
- 10.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- CA0079260
- Expired
- Permit expires
- March 2024
- Population served
- 47,700
- CWNS 2022
Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Yuba City, Sutter County, California treating an average of 5.16 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 10.5 MGD, serving about 47,700 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit CA0079260 (expired), which expires in March 2024, with 20 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in June 2009.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 20
- Effluent violations
- 8
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 Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1,200
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $60,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 2
- latest Dec 2007
Latest case · Jun 2009
Yuba City Wastewater CAA 112r ESA
Administrative order · CAA, Prevention of Accidental Release/Risk Management Plans (RMPs) · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $1,200
EPA's description of the case:
“This is an Administrative Penalty Action (Expedited Settlement Agreement), pursuant to CAA 112r7 issued to the City of Yuba, CA for their Waster Water Treatment Facility, located in Yuba, CA. The…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 09-2009-3516.
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Every action against Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Yuba City
Yuba City's capital improvement plan lists 22 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $7M starting 2024–2024. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Utillity Billing System Conversion | $800,000 | 2024–2025 |
| Barry School Water Transmission Line | $749,157 | 2024–2025 |
| Secondary Clarifier Improvements | $650,000 | 2024–2025 |
| Recurring Collection or Rehabilitation System Projects | $500,000 | 2024–2025 |
| WTP Basin Improvements | $500,000 | 2024–2025 |
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Key contacts
3 verified contacts for Yuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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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 27, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms