Poplar Bluff Municipal WWTP
Butler County Road #306, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 · Butler County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 4.75 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MO0043648
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- September 2024
- Population served
- 16,979
- CWNS 2022
Poplar Bluff Municipal WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri treating an average of 4.75 million gallons per day, serving about 16,979 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MO0043648 (administratively continued), which expires in September 2024, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in July 2012.
Treatment technology
6 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Poplar Bluff Municipal WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- Effluent violations
- 4
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 Poplar Bluff Municipal WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $2,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jul 2012
CITY OF POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI
Administrative order · CWA, Sewage Sludge Disposal · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $2,000
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2012-0181.
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Every action against Poplar Bluff Municipal WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Poplar Bluff Municipal 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 12, 2026; facility record last updated August 3, 2026.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Tertiary treatment · Significant industrial user · all terms