Sterling Wastewater Treatment Facility
Sterling, NE · Johnson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 0.06 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NE0040967
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2030
- Population served
- 544
- CWNS 2022
Sterling Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Sterling, Johnson County, Nebraska, serving about 544 residents. Treatment on site includes uncovered lagoons. It discharges under NPDES permit NE0040967 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 154 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Uncovered lagoons
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 154
- Effluent violations
- 0
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Sterling Wastewater 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated November 6, 2025.