Benham STP
Benham, KY · Harlan County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.1 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.25 MGD
- NPDES permit
- KY0025755
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- July 2026
- Population served
- 741
- CWNS 2022
Benham STP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Benham, Harlan County, Kentucky treating an average of 0.1 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.25 MGD, serving about 741 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers. It discharges under NPDES permit KY0025755 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2026, with 414 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 414
- Effluent violations
- 239
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Benham STP: 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated May 18, 2025.