Cherokee Metro District Water Reclamation Facility
19174 Drennan Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80928 · El Paso County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 2.66 MGD
- Design flow
- 4.8 MGD
- NPDES permit
- COX048348
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- July 2023
- Population served
- 42,300
- CWNS 2022
Cherokee Metro District Water Reclamation Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado treating an average of 2.66 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 4.8 MGD, serving about 42,300 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit COX048348 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2023, with 631 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Cherokee Metro District Water Reclamation Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 631
- Effluent violations
- 51
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
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Cherokee Metro District Water Reclamation Facility: 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 14, 2026; facility record last updated March 18, 2025.