Rock Creek Waste Treatment
Independence, MO · Jackson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 5.07 MGD
- Design flow
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- 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 5.07 million gallons per day, serving about 113,681 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, biological treatment, other, biosolids thickening, dechlorination, disinfection, chlorine/ chloramine. It discharges under NPDES permit MO0089681 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2024, with 12 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Clarifiers
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Biological Treatment, Other
unit processBiosolids Thickening
unit processDechlorination
unit processDisinfection, chlorine/ chloramine
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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.
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 |
Full project details — scope, funding source, engineering consultant and the decision-makers behind each project — are available in Klarifi, along with similar wastewater capital projects in other cities.
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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated May 20, 2025.