Benton Palmetto Park Treatment Plant
West End Of 6th Street, Benton, LA 71006 · Bossier County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.16 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.9 MGD
- NPDES permit
- LA0102890
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- May 2023
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
Benton Palmetto Park Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Benton, Bossier County, Louisiana treating an average of 0.16 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.9 MGD. It discharges under NPDES permit LA0102890 (administratively continued), which expires in May 2023, with 94 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in September 2025.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Benton Palmetto Park Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 94
- Effluent violations
- 94
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 Benton Palmetto Park Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 2 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $1.4M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Sep 2025
Town of Benton
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $800,000
EPA's description of the case:
“The Town of Benton, LA WWTP is in violation of its NPDES permit effluent limits. Compliance is encouraged by the issuance of this Administrative Order in coordination with the Town gaining guidance…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2024-1717.
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Every action against Benton Palmetto Park Treatment Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Benton · 4 mi away
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Bossier City · 7 mi away
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Shreveport · 8 mi away
0.27 MGD
Shreveport · 9 mi away
3.78 MGD
Shreveport · 10 mi away
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Blanchard · 10 mi away
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Bossier City · 11 mi away
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Benton Palmetto Park 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated July 18, 2023.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms