Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist
106 4th Avenue East, Charlo, MT 59824 · Lake County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.02 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.09 MGD
- NPDES permit
- MT0022551
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2030
- Population served
- 469
- CWNS 2022
Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Charlo, Lake County, Montana treating an average of 0.02 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.09 MGD, serving about 469 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit MT0022551 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 170 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in February 2017.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 170
- Effluent violations
- 0
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 Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $3,500
- all cases
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Apr 2004
Latest case · Feb 2017
Lake County Charlo Sewer District
Administrative order · CWA, Violation of Existing AO · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $3,500
EPA's description of the case:
“This administrative penalty order is issued to the Lake County Charlo Sewer District for failure to install disinfection equipment or conduct a shakedown of that equipment within 30 months from…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 08-2005-0229.
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Every action against Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Consolidated Charlo-Lake County Water&sewer Dist: 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 26, 2026; facility record last updated January 23, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms