River Road WWTP
6400 River Road, West New York, NJ 07093 · Hudson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 15 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NJ0025321
- Effective
- Permit expires
- March 2031
- Population served
- 4,896
- CWNS 2022
River Road WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in West New York, Hudson County, New Jersey, serving about 4,896 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NJ0025321 (effective), which expires in March 2031, with 98 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in May 2014.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at River Road WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 98
- Effluent violations
- 94
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 River Road WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $162,100
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $4.4M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · May 2014
North Hudson Sewerage Authority
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $4.4M · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“The Respondent owns the NJPDES permitted combined sewer systems (CSS) located in the Cities of Hoboken, Union City, and West New York and in the Township of Weehawken, New Jersey. EPA and EPA…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2014-3036.
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Every action against River Road WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
3 verified contacts for River Road WWTP, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Nearby wastewater treatment plants in New Jersey
North Bergen · 1 mi away
2.54 MGD
Edgewater · 2 mi away
3.44 MGD
Hoboken · 3 mi away
11.73 MGD
Little Ferry · 4 mi away
70 MGD
Elizabeth · 14 mi away
50.33 MGD
Wayne · 16 mi away
6.88 MGD
Lincoln Park · 16 mi away
5.07 MGD
Parsippany · 18 mi away
8.44 MGD
River Road WWTP: 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 April 24, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Significant industrial user · WWTP · all terms