GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility
9300 West Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, MI 48209 · Wayne County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 416.18 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MI0022802
- Effective
- Permit expires
- October 2027
- Population served
- 2,844,020
- CWNS 2022
GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan treating an average of 416.18 million gallons per day, serving about 2,844,020 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MI0022802 (effective), which expires in October 2027, with 37 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 4 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in December 2011.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 37
- Effluent violations
- 25
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 GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 4
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $168,500
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Sep 2010
Latest case · Dec 2011
DETROIT WATER AND SEWERAGE DEPT
Administrative order · CAA, General Duty/Accidental Release · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $168,500
EPA's description of the case:
“On December 9, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an agreed Clean Air Act Section 303 Order to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) alleging that a pollution source is…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2012-5012.
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Every action against GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Industrial users and pretreatment
Industries that discharge process wastewater to GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility, from the plant's pretreatment programme records.
- Industrial users
- 229
- 35 categorical
- Sampled for PFAS
- 55
- 2023–2024
- Above 12 ng/L PFOS
- 35
- highest 2,000 ng/L
The highest PFOS samples came from Valicor (Inkster), 2,000 ng/L; Dana Container, Inc. Tank Cleaning Division (Detroit), 1,800 ng/L; Woodland Meadows Landfill (WM) (Wayne), 1,500 ng/L. Most users are in metal finishing and plating and automotive, metal and equipment manufacturing.
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Capital improvement projects in Detroit
Detroit's capital improvement plan lists 18 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $88M starting 2024–2024. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Sewer Program Allowances | $28,000,000 | 2024–2026 |
| Watermain Program Allowances | $20,000,000 | 2024–2026 |
| Green Stormwater Infrastructure Construction Allowance | $10,000,000 | 2024–2026 |
| Watermain Replacement - Medical Ctr, Cultural Ctr, & Midtown 30,000LF | $5,000,000 | 2024–2025 |
| West Warren (Constance at Rouge Park/Tireman Sawyer PH III) | $4,990,000 | 2024–2026 |
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Key contacts
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GLWA Water Resource Recovery 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 February 26, 2025.
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