Rock Creek Waste Treatment
9600 Norledge Street, Independence, MO 64053 · Jackson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 6.35 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MO0089681
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- March 2024
- Population served
- 113,681
- CWNS 2022
Rock Creek Waste Treatment is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri treating an average of 6.35 million gallons per day, serving about 113,681 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MO0089681 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2024, with 12 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in July 2016.
Treatment technology
5 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Rock Creek Waste Treatment.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 12
- Effluent violations
- 12
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 Rock Creek Waste Treatment in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $261,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $35M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jul 2016
CITY OF INDEPENDENCE
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $255,000 · Compliance actions $35M
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2008-0132.
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Every action against Rock Creek Waste Treatment with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Independence
Independence's capital improvement plan lists 46 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $90M starting 2025–2030. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Main Replacement Program | $34,000,000 | 2025–2031 |
| Nutrient Removal | $8,500,000 | 2026–2031 |
| Service Line Upgrades | $5,160,000 | 2025–2031 |
| Future Production Wells | $4,000,000 | 2025–2031 |
| M-291 Wellfield Header | $4,000,000 | 2025–2027 |
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Key contacts
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Rock Creek Waste Treatment: 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 May 20, 2025.
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