City Of Belen WWTP
1300 Conservancy Rd, Belen, NM 87002 · Valencia County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 1.2 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0020150
- Effective
- Permit expires
- November 2030
- Population served
- 7,360
- CWNS 2022
City Of Belen WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Belen, Valencia County, New Mexico, serving about 7,360 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0020150 (effective), which expires in November 2030, with 54 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in June 2026.
Treatment technology
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 54
- Effluent violations
- 44
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 City Of Belen WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 2 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $5,500
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jun 2026
Belen - Administrative Order
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued
EPA's description of the case:
“EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to the City of Belen Wastewater Treatment Plant. The AO was issued in response to…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1817.
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Key contacts
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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 September 11, 2026.
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