Cherokee WWTP
5475 River Rd, Cherokee, IA 51012 · Cherokee County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 3.87 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IA0059005
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- January 2026
- Population served
- 5,490
- CWNS 2022
Cherokee WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa, serving about 5,490 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IA0059005 (administratively continued), which expires in January 2026, with 85 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Cherokee WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 85
- Effluent violations
- 85
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Industrial users and pretreatment
Industries that discharge process wastewater to Cherokee WWTP, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 2
- on record
On record: Cherokee County Sanitary Landfill (Cherokee); R J Thomas Mfg CO INC (Cherokee). Most users are in automotive, metal and equipment manufacturing and landfills and waste management.
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Cherokee WWTP: 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 10, 2026.
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