Lynch STP
317 W Main St, Lynch, KY 40855 · Harlan County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.03 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- KYG640013
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2028
- Population served
- 871
- CWNS 2022
Lynch STP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Lynch, Harlan County, Kentucky treating an average of 0.03 million gallons per day, serving about 871 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit KYG640013 (effective), which expires in December 2028, with 111 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in October 2014.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Lynch STP.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 111
- Effluent violations
- 26
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 Lynch STP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $4,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $27,750
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Oct 2014
LYNCH, KY, CITY OF
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $4,000
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2013-4523.
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Every action against Lynch STP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
Decision-makers at Lynch STP.
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Lynch 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated January 29, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms