New Bedford Wastewater Treatment Facility
875 Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford, MA 02744 · Bristol County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 21.74 MGD
- Design flow
- 30 MGD
- NPDES permit
- MA0100781
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- November 2013
- Population served
- 103,942
- CWNS 2022
New Bedford Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts treating an average of 21.74 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 30 MGD, serving about 103,942 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MA0100781 (administratively continued), which expires in November 2013, with 14 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2020.
Treatment technology
6 treatment structures and unit processes identified at New Bedford Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 14
- Effluent violations
- 14
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 New Bedford Wastewater Treatment Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $36M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Apr 2020
NEW BEDFORD WWTF
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Superseded by Another Enforcement Action · Compliance actions $150,000
EPA's description of the case:
“This order is based on violations of the Clean Water Act and permittee's NPDES Permit. The order requires the City to identify and eliminate causes of unauthorized wastewater collection system…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 01-2012-2006.
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Key contacts
2 verified contacts for New Bedford Wastewater Treatment Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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New Bedford 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated May 5, 2025.
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