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Socorro, City Of

302 Main Street, Socorro, NM 87801 · Socorro County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
—
Design flow
1 MGD
NPDES permit
NM0028835
Administratively continued
Permit expires
July 2026
Population served
8,707
CWNS 2022

Socorro, City Of is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Socorro, Socorro County, New Mexico, serving about 8,707 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0028835 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2026, with 6 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 5 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in August 2026.

Treatment technology

One treatment structure or unit process identified at Socorro, City Of.

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
6
Effluent violations
2

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 Socorro, City Of in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
5
1 since FY2020
Penalties assessed
$19,000
all cases
EPA inspections
0
none on record

Latest case · Aug 2026

City of Socorro Failure to Timely Reapply AO

Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued

EPA's description of the case:

“The City of Socorro has been issued an Administrative Order for failure to apply for permit reissuance within one-hundred and eighty (180) days. The City of Socorro has fifteen (15) days. No monetary…”

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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1814.

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Socorro, City Of: 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 February 27, 2025.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biosolids · Filter press · all terms


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