Buhl WWTP
4269 N 1360 E, Buhl, ID 83316 · Twin Falls County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.29 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.67 MGD
- NPDES permit
- ID0020664
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- October 2012
- Population served
- 4,558
- CWNS 2022
Buhl WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho treating an average of 0.29 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.67 MGD, serving about 4,558 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit ID0020664 (administratively continued), which expires in October 2012, with 2 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in May 2005.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Buhl WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 2
- Effluent violations
- 0
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Buhl WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $38,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $120,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · May 2005
CITY OF BUHL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $38,000 · Compliance actions $120,000
EPA's description of the case:
“Between December 1999 and April 2004, 703 effluent limit violations were recorded which included 23 monthly average limit violations, 1 weekly average limit violation and 6 daily maximum violations.…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 10-2005-0084.
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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 September 14, 2026; facility record last updated February 8, 2025.