Brighton WWTP
6750 Hamburg Rd, Brighton, MI 48116 · Livingston County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.16 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MI0020877
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- October 2025
- Population served
- 9,785
- CWNS 2022
Brighton WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Brighton, Livingston County, Michigan treating an average of 1.16 million gallons per day, serving about 9,785 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MI0020877 (administratively continued), which expires in October 2025, with 8 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
5 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Brighton WWTP.
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See the full treatment train at Brighton WWTP: structures, unit processes and planned upgrades, with exact unit counts.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 8
- Effluent violations
- 0
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Industrial users and pretreatment
Industries that discharge process wastewater to Brighton WWTP, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 2
- on record
- Sampled for PFAS
- 1
- 2024
- Above 12 ng/L PFOS
- 0
- highest 2 ng/L
On record: Brookside Laundromat (Brighton), 2 ng/L; March Coatings Ventures LLC (Brighton). Most users are in laundries and metal finishing and plating.
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Capital improvement projects in Brighton
Brighton's capital improvement plan lists 59 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $11M starting 2025–2030. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Auxiliary Power Equipment Replacement at Wastewater Treatment Plant & Third Street Lift Station | $1,300,000 | 2029–2029 |
| Challis Road Water Plant Expansion | $1,100,000 | 2026–2026 |
| Secondary Clarier Mechanism Replacement | $1,000,000 | 2030–2030 |
| Karl Greimel Booster Station Installation | $1,000,000 | 2027–2027 |
| Pine Creek Booster Station Installation | $900,000 | 2025–2025 |
Full project details — scope, funding source, engineering consultant and the decision-makers behind each project — are available in Klarifi, along with similar wastewater capital projects in other cities.
Key contacts
6 verified contacts for Brighton WWTP, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Nearby wastewater treatment plants in Michigan
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South Lyon · 8 mi away
1.12 MGD
Howell · 9 mi away
1.36 MGD
Milford · 11 mi away
0.54 MGD
Howell · 12 mi away
0.31 MGD
Dexter · 12 mi away
0.32 MGD
Brighton 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 August 6, 2026.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Anaerobic digester · Lift station · all terms