Fort Knox WWTP
Fort Knox, KY · Hardin County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.64 MGD
- Design flow
- 6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- KY0112721
- Effective
- Permit expires
- September 2030
- Population served
- 24,015
- CWNS 2022
Fort Knox WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Fort Knox, Hardin County, Kentucky treating an average of 1.64 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 6 MGD, serving about 24,015 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, carrousels / oxidation ditches, biosolids aerobic digestion, disinfection, uv, suspended growth, aerobic. It discharges under NPDES permit KY0112721 (effective), which expires in September 2030, with 2 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Clarifiers
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Carrousels / oxidation ditches
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Biosolids Aerobic Digestion
unit processDisinfection, UV
unit processSuspended Growth, Aerobic
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 2
- Effluent violations
- 2
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Fort Knox 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated May 18, 2025.