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Wailua Wastewater Treatment Plant

4460 Nalu Road, Kapaa, HI 96746 · Kauai County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
0.48 MGD
Design flow
1.5 MGD
NPDES permit
HI0020257
Administratively continued
Permit expires
October 2024
Population served
3,512
CWNS 2022

Wailua Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Kapaa, Kauai County, Hawaii treating an average of 0.48 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.5 MGD, serving about 3,512 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit HI0020257 (administratively continued), which expires in October 2024, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in August 1999.

Treatment technology

One treatment structure or unit process identified at Wailua Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
4
Effluent violations
4

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 Wailua Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
1
0 since FY2020
EPA inspections
0
none on record

Latest case · Aug 1999

COUNTY OF KAUAI

Administrative order · CWA, Violation of Existing AO · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication

Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 09-1999-0150.

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Nearby wastewater treatment plants in Hawaii

County Of Hawaii Papaikou-Paukaa WWTP

Hilo · 315 mi away

0.1 MGD

Hawaii County Hilo WWTP

Hilo · 322 mi away

3.85 MGD

Wailua Wastewater Treatment Plant: 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 September 1, 2025.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms


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