Santa Fe WWTP
Airport Road, Santa Fe, NM 87504 · Santa Fe County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 5.24 MGD
- Design flow
- 6.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0022292
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- August 2026
- Population served
- 87,505
- CWNS 2022
Santa Fe WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico treating an average of 5.24 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 6.5 MGD, serving about 87,505 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0022292 (administratively continued), which expires in August 2026, with 223 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 9 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in August 2026.
Treatment technology
4 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Santa Fe WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 223
- Effluent violations
- 216
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 Santa Fe WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 9
- 6 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $2M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Aug 2026
Santa Fe WWTP
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued
EPA's description of the case:
“Failure to meet permit effluent limits and the permit schedule of compliance for copper limit.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1838.
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Every action against Santa Fe WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Santa Fe 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 · Lift station · Sludge dewatering · all terms