Howells Waste Water Treatment Facility
East Front Street, Howells, NE 68641 · Colfax County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.02 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.29 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NE0046205
- Expired
- Permit expires
- March 2026
- Population served
- 648
- CWNS 2022
Howells Waste Water Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Howells, Colfax County, Nebraska treating an average of 0.02 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.29 MGD, serving about 648 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NE0046205 (expired), which expires in March 2026, with 2 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Howells Waste Water Treatment Facility.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 2
- Effluent violations
- 2
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Howells Waste Water Treatment 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 26, 2026; facility record last updated November 14, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Tertiary treatment · Significant industrial user · all terms