Buffalo Head Start
Hwy 65, Buffalo, MO 65622 · Dallas County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.77 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MO0094854
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- March 2025
- Population served
- 3,101
- CWNS 2022
Buffalo Head Start is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Buffalo, Dallas County, Missouri treating an average of 0.77 million gallons per day, serving about 3,101 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MO0094854 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2025, with 3 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in May 2014.
Treatment technology
5 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Buffalo Head Start.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 3
- Effluent violations
- 3
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 Buffalo Head Start in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $3.9M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · May 2014
CITY OF BUFFALO, MISSOURI
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $3.9M
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2007-0246.
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Every action against Buffalo Head Start with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Buffalo Head Start: 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 12, 2026; facility record last updated September 4, 2024.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · FOG · Equalization tank · all terms