St. Joseph Water Protection Facility
3500 Highway 759, Saint Joseph, MO 64504 · Buchanan County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 20.69 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- MO0023043
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- November 2025
- Population served
- 77,300
- CWNS 2022
St. Joseph Water Protection Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri treating an average of 20.69 million gallons per day, serving about 77,300 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MO0023043 (administratively continued), which expires in November 2025, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in February 2020.
Treatment technology
7 treatment structures and unit processes identified at St. Joseph Water Protection Facility.
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See the full treatment train at St. Joseph Water Protection Facility: structures, unit processes and planned upgrades, with exact unit counts.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- Effluent violations
- 2
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 St. Joseph Water Protection Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $28,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $460,720
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Feb 2020
ST JOSEPH, MISSOURI
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $400,720
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 07-2013-0130.
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Every action against St. Joseph Water Protection Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph's capital improvement plan lists 11 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $15M starting 2024–2026. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
All water and sewer capital projects in Saint Joseph →
| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| CMOM Consolidated Repairs | $10,000,000 | 2024–2028 |
| Sewer Vehicle Replacement | $2,000,000 | 2024–2028 |
| TV Van | $725,000 | 2026–2027 |
| Sewer Maint Vactor | $540,000 | 2025–2026 |
| Rolling Stock Sewer Maint | $500,000 | 2025–2026 |
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
4 verified contacts for St. Joseph Water Protection Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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St. Joseph Water Protection Facility: 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 March 2, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Filter press · FOG · all terms