Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage
40 Polhemus Lane, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 · Somerset County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 16.4 MGD
- Design flow
- 23 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NJ0024864
- Effective
- Permit expires
- November 2030
- Population served
- 117,267
- CWNS 2022
Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey treating an average of 16.4 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 23 MGD, serving about 117,267 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NJ0024864 (effective), which expires in November 2030, with 12 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in April 2024.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 12
- Effluent violations
- 10
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $225,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $12M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Jul 2012
Latest case · Apr 2024
Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority
Judicial case · CAA, Solid Waste Fuel Combustion · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $225,000 · Compliance actions $12M
EPA's description of the case:
“Requesting DOJ initiate a civil judicial action against wastewater treatment facilities designed to treat domestic sewage sludge by operating sewage sludge incineration (SSI) units. The action would…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2016-0016.
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Every action against Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Somerset Raritian Valley Sewerage: 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 May 21, 2025.
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