Taneytown Wastewater Treatment Plant
Whippoorwill Drive @ Route 140, Taneytown, MD 21787 · Carroll County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.75 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.1 MGD
- NPDES permit
- MD0020672
- Effective
- Permit expires
- May 2031
- Population served
- 6,746
- CWNS 2022
Taneytown Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Taneytown, Carroll County, Maryland treating an average of 0.75 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.1 MGD, serving about 6,746 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MD0020672 (effective), which expires in May 2031, with 3 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Taneytown Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 3
- Effluent violations
- 2
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Taneytown 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated February 27, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Tertiary treatment · Significant industrial user · all terms