City Of Las Cruces - Utilities
Las Cruces, NM 88005 · Dona Ana County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 8.9 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0023311
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- June 2026
- Population served
- 55,724
- CWNS 2022
City Of Las Cruces - Utilities is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, serving about 55,724 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0023311 (administratively continued), which expires in June 2026, with 28 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in June 2026.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at City Of Las Cruces - Utilities.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 28
- Effluent violations
- 28
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 Las Cruces - Utilities in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 2 since FY2020
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jun 2026
City of Las Cruces
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Compliance Achieved
EPA's description of the case:
“Administrative Order (AO) CWA-06-2026-1749 issued to the City of Las Cruces, for violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. ? 1251 et seq. Violations were identified during a review of the…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1749.
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Key contacts
29 verified contacts for City Of Las Cruces - Utilities, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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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 2, 2025.
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