Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
Elizabethtown, KY · Hardin County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 5.3 MGD
- Design flow
- 13 MGD
- NPDES permit
- KY0022039
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- October 2023
- Population served
- 30,361
- CWNS 2022
Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky treating an average of 5.3 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 13 MGD, serving about 30,361 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, carrousels / oxidation ditches, biosolids mechanical dewatering, biosolids thickening, dechlorination and other unit processes. It discharges under NPDES permit KY0022039 (administratively continued), which expires in October 2023, with 1 recorded violation 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 Mechanical Dewatering
unit processBiosolids Thickening
unit processDechlorination
unit processDisinfection, chlorine/ chloramine
unit processSuspended Growth, Aerobic
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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.
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Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant: 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.