City Of Emmetsburg Treatment Plant
4552 Burns Road, Emmetsburg, IA 50536 · Palo Alto County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 2.38 MGD
- Design flow
- 2.25 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IA0021580
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2031
- Population served
- 4,118
- CWNS 2022
City Of Emmetsburg Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto County, Iowa treating an average of 2.38 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2.25 MGD, serving about 4,118 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IA0021580 (effective), which expires in April 2031, with 80 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at City Of Emmetsburg Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 80
- Effluent violations
- 78
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 City Of Emmetsburg Treatment Plant, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 2
- on record
On record: Ag Processing Inc (Emmetsburg); Montag Manufacturing (Emmetsburg). Most users are in automotive, metal and equipment manufacturing and food and beverage.
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Key contacts
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City Of Emmetsburg 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 March 11, 2025.
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