Babbitt WWTP
100 Poplar Dr, Babbitt, MN 55706 · St. Louis County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.2 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- MN0020656
- Expired
- Permit expires
- May 2025
- Population served
- 1,543
- CWNS 2022
Babbitt WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Babbitt, St. Louis County, Minnesota treating an average of 0.2 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.5 MGD, serving about 1,543 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MN0020656 (expired), which expires in May 2025, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Babbitt WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- Effluent violations
- 1
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Babbitt 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 November 13, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · WWTP · Biosolids · all terms