Wastewater Treatment Facility
1850 12th St, Sarasota, FL 34236 · Sarasota County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 6.08 MGD
- Design flow
- 10.2 MGD
- NPDES permit
- FL0040771
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- September 2026
- Population served
- 54,764
- CWNS 2022
Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida treating an average of 6.08 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 10.2 MGD, serving about 54,764 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit FL0040771 (administratively continued), which expires in September 2026, with 141 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in September 2017.
Treatment technology
10 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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See the full treatment train at Wastewater Treatment Facility: structures, unit processes and planned upgrades, with exact unit counts.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 141
- Effluent violations
- 133
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 Wastewater Treatment Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $165,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $100
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Nov 2006
Latest case · Sep 2017
FL, SARASOTA, CITY OF WWTF
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $100
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2017-4763.
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Every action against Wastewater Treatment Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Sarasota
Sarasota's capital improvement plan lists 40 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $153M starting 2024–2028. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
All water and sewer capital projects in Sarasota →
| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| WTP-Water Quality Treatment Improvement Project | $75,000,000 | 2026–2027 |
| Annual WWTP Renewal & Replacement Program | $12,904,000 | 2024–2029 |
| Meter Replacement Program | $12,000,000 | 2024–2025 |
| Small AC Water Main Replacement | $6,327,000 | 2024–2028 |
| Replace LS#16 24" Force Main from 8th Street to 4th Street 8th & Osprey along Orange to 4th along 4th to existing 24" Force Main | $5,970,000 | 2026–2028 |
Full project details — scope, funding source, engineering consultant and the decision-makers behind each project — are available in Klarifi, along with similar wastewater capital projects in other cities.
Key contacts
16 verified contacts for Wastewater Treatment Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Wastewater Treatment 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated October 22, 2026.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Significant industrial user · WWTP · all terms