Ft Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Facility
Fort Fairfield, ME · Aroostook County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.16 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- ME0100226
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- May 2022
- Population served
- 1,663
- CWNS 2022
Ft Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine treating an average of 0.16 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.6 MGD, serving about 1,663 residents. Treatment on site includes uncovered lagoons, attached growth, aerobic, dechlorination, disinfection, chlorine/ chloramine, screening. It discharges under NPDES permit ME0100226 (administratively continued), which expires in May 2022, with 11 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Uncovered lagoons
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Attached Growth, Aerobic
unit processDechlorination
unit processDisinfection, chlorine/ chloramine
unit processScreening
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 11
- Effluent violations
- 5
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Ft Fairfield 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 November 8, 2025.