City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility
1202 Musser St, Muscatine, IA 52761 · Muscatine County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 3.89 MGD
- Design flow
- 16.9 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IA0023434
- Effective
- Permit expires
- March 2030
- Population served
- 22,886
- CWNS 2022
City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa treating an average of 3.89 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 16.9 MGD, serving about 22,886 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IA0023434 (effective), which expires in March 2030, with 16 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in September 2007.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 16
- Effluent violations
- 16
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 City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $30M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Sep 2007
CITY OF MUSCATINE, IOWA
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $30M
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2007-0217.
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Every action against City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Industrial users and pretreatment
Industries that discharge process wastewater to City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 4
- on record
Among them: City Of Muscatine Xfr Sta Recyc Ctr& Hhm Collection Ctr (Muscatine); Grain Processing Corp (Muscatine); Hon CO INC- Geneva Annex Plant (Muscatine). Most users are in food and beverage and automotive, metal and equipment manufacturing.
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Capital improvement projects in Muscatine
Muscatine's capital improvement plan lists 9 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $17M starting 2025–2027. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| West Hill Sewer Separation Project | $6,000,000 | 2025–2026 |
| Nutrient and Struvite Mitigation Algae Project | $2,940,000 | 2025–2025 |
| Dual Use Redundant Force Main (DURF) | $2,926,400 | 2025–2025 |
| Progress Park Force Main Redundant Line | $1,500,000 | 2025–2027 |
| UV System Replacement | $1,115,000 | 2025–2025 |
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Key contacts
3 verified contacts for City Of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated April 23, 2025.
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