Rwra Max Rhoads WWTP
1201 Ewing Rd North, Owensboro, KY 42301 · Daviess County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 7.68 MGD
- Design flow
- 15 MGD
- NPDES permit
- KY0020095
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- December 2021
- Population served
- 43,157
- CWNS 2022
Rwra Max Rhoads WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky treating an average of 7.68 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 15 MGD, serving about 43,157 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit KY0020095 (administratively continued), which expires in December 2021, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in July 2016.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Rwra Max Rhoads WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1
- Effluent violations
- 1
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 Rwra Max Rhoads WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $10,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Sep 2004
Latest case · Jul 2016
OWENSBORO, KY, CITY OF
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $10,000
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2008-4754.
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Key contacts
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Rwra Max Rhoads 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated May 18, 2025.
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