Idaho Springs City Of
980 County Road 314, Idaho Springs, CO 80452 · Clear Creek County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.23 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- CO0041068
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- March 2021
- Population served
- 306
- CWNS 2022
Idaho Springs City Of is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado treating an average of 0.23 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.6 MGD, serving about 306 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit CO0041068 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2021, with 11 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in March 2004.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Idaho Springs City Of.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 11
- Effluent violations
- 1
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 Idaho Springs City Of in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $700
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Mar 2004
City of Idaho Springs
Administrative order · CWA, Sewage Sludge Disposal · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $700
EPA's description of the case:
“This administrative order for compliance is issued to the City of Idaho Springs for failure to apply for coverage under the general permit, effective on 8/16/2002, for facilities in Colorado and…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 08-2003-0079.
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Every action against Idaho Springs City Of with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Idaho Springs City Of: 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 February 25, 2025.
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