Fairbank WWTP
Fairbank, IA 50629 · Buchanan County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.15 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.11 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IA0035041
- Effective
- Permit expires
- November 2026
- Population served
- 1,163
- CWNS 2022
Fairbank WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Fairbank, Buchanan County, Iowa treating an average of 0.15 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.11 MGD, serving about 1,163 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IA0035041 (effective), which expires in November 2026, with 5 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in November 2016.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Fairbank WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 5
- Effluent violations
- 5
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 Fairbank WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $5M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Nov 2016
CITY OF FAIRBANK
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $5M
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2011-0187.
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Every action against Fairbank WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Westgate · 10 mi away
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Fairbank 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 May 17, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biological nutrient removal · Tertiary treatment · all terms