Hardwick WWTP
Pine St, Hardwick, MA 01037 · Worcester County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.02 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MAG580017
- Effective
- Permit expires
- November 2026
- Population served
- 2,217
- CWNS 2022
Hardwick WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts treating an average of 0.02 million gallons per day, serving about 2,217 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MAG580017 (effective), which expires in November 2026, with 41 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in January 2024.
Treatment technology
5 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Hardwick WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 41
- Effluent violations
- 16
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 Hardwick WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $25,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jan 2024
HARDWICK WWTP
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $25,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On April 10, 2019, EPA issued a Clean Water Act administrative order (AO) to the Town of Hardwick, Massachusetts for violations of the effluent limits contained in its NPDES permit. The Town owns and…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 01-2019-2021.
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Every action against Hardwick WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Hardwick WWTP: 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 March 24, 2025.
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