East Chicago Sanitary District
5200 Indianapolis Boulevard, East Chicago, IN 46312 · Lake County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 9.42 MGD
- Design flow
- 15 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IN0022829
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- June 2026
- Population served
- 35,382
- CWNS 2022
East Chicago Sanitary District is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana treating an average of 9.42 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 15 MGD, serving about 35,382 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IN0022829 (administratively continued), which expires in June 2026, with 41 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in December 2014.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at East Chicago Sanitary District.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 41
- Effluent violations
- 20
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 East Chicago Sanitary District in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $160,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $300,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Dec 2014
City of East Chicago
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $300,000
EPA's description of the case:
“ACO seeks to bring the City back into compliance with the CWA”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2015-0303.
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Every action against East Chicago Sanitary District with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
9 verified contacts for East Chicago Sanitary District, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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East Chicago Sanitary District: 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 March 29, 2025.
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