Ponchatoula, City Of- Wastewater Treatment Facility
Ponchatoula, LA · Tangipahoa County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.24 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.4 MGD
- NPDES permit
- LA0044695
- Effective
- Permit expires
- January 2031
- Population served
- 7,195
- CWNS 2022
Ponchatoula, City Of- Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa County, Louisiana treating an average of 1.24 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.4 MGD, serving about 7,195 residents. Treatment on site includes aerated lagoons. It discharges under NPDES permit LA0044695 (effective), which expires in January 2031, with 131 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Aerated lagoons
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 131
- Effluent violations
- 131
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
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Ponchatoula, City Of- Wastewater Treatment Facility: 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 August 11, 2026.