Derek R Guthrie WQTC MSD
11621 Lower River Rd, Louisville, KY 40272 · Jefferson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 55.21 MGD
- Design flow
- 60 MGD
- NPDES permit
- KY0078956
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2031
- Population served
- 109,588
- CWNS 2022
Derek R Guthrie WQTC MSD is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky treating an average of 55.21 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 60 MGD, serving about 109,588 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit KY0078956 (effective), which expires in April 2031, with 16 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in September 2022.
Treatment technology
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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 Derek R Guthrie WQTC MSD in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1.2M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $1,943M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Sep 2022
LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY METROPOLITAN SEWER DISTRICT (MSD) AND COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $230,000 · Compliance actions $1,143M
EPA's description of the case:
“See sensitive comment.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2007-9022.
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Every action against Derek R Guthrie WQTC MSD with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Derek R Guthrie WQTC MSD: 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 18, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Activated sludge · Oxidation ditch · all terms