Water Pollution Control Facility
7525 Bertram Rd Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 · Linn County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 39.59 MGD
- Design flow
- 86.95 MGD
- NPDES permit
- IA0042641
- Effective
- Permit expires
- August 2030
- Population served
- 165,738
- CWNS 2022
Water Pollution Control Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa treating an average of 39.59 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 86.95 MGD, serving about 165,738 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit IA0042641 (effective), which expires in August 2030, with 15 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2012.
Treatment technology
4 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Water Pollution Control Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 15
- Effluent violations
- 11
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 Water Pollution Control Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $3,500
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $66,700
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Feb 2009
Latest case · Apr 2012
CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $65,500
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2008-0099.
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Every action against Water Pollution Control 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 Water Pollution Control Facility, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 9
- on record
Among them: Archer Daniels Midland Company - Cedar Rapids (Cedar Rapids); Bae Systems And Electronic Systems Integration INC (Cedar Rapids); Clipper Wind Power, INC. (Cedar Rapids). Most users are in food and beverage and automotive, metal and equipment manufacturing.
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Key contacts
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Water Pollution Control Facility: 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 6, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Significant industrial user · WWTP · all terms