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Upper Blackstone Wastewater Treatment Plant

50 Route 20, Millbury, MA 01527 · Worcester County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
30.02 MGD
Design flow
—
NPDES permit
MAR053209
Expired
Permit expires
February 2026
Population served
257,969
CWNS 2022

Upper Blackstone Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts treating an average of 30.02 million gallons per day, serving about 257,969 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MAR053209 (expired), which expires in February 2026, with 19 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 4 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in May 2014.

Treatment technology

12 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Upper Blackstone Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
19
Effluent violations
19

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 Upper Blackstone Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
4
0 since FY2020
Penalties assessed
$2,000
all cases
Compliance actions
$130M
required by EPA orders
EPA inspections
0
none on record

Latest case · May 2014

UPPER BLACKSTONE

Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $10M

Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 01-2014-2003.

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Key contacts

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Upper Blackstone 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 June 30, 2025.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biosolids · Filter press · all terms


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