Silver City (city Of) - Wastewater Treatment Plant
1660 Filaree Rd, Silver City, NM 88061 · Grant County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.94 MGD
- Design flow
- 2 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0020109
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- August 2018
- Population served
- 9,705
- CWNS 2022
Silver City (city Of) - Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico treating an average of 0.94 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2 MGD, serving about 9,705 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0020109 (administratively continued), which expires in August 2018, with 18 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Silver City (city Of) - Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 18
- Effluent violations
- 0
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 Silver City (city Of) - Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 0
- none on record
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Sep 2004
No formal federal enforcement case is on record for this plant.
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Key contacts
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Silver City (city Of) - Wastewater Treatment Plant: 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.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms