Sunland Park Wastewater Plant
1000 Mcnutt Road, Sunland Park, NM 88063 · Dona Ana County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.1 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.61 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0029483
- Expired
- Permit expires
- October 2025
- Population served
- 16,234
- CWNS 2022
Sunland Park Wastewater Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Sunland Park, Dona Ana County, New Mexico treating an average of 1.1 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.61 MGD, serving about 16,234 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0029483 (expired), which expires in October 2025, with 52 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2026.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Sunland Park Wastewater Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 52
- Effluent violations
- 12
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 Sunland Park Wastewater Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 2 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $5,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $13,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 3
- latest Sep 2004
Latest case · Apr 2026
CRRUA - Sunland Park Administrative Order
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On April 30, 2026, EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to the Camino Real Regional Utility Wastewater Treatment Plant.…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1787.
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Every action against Sunland Park Wastewater Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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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 April 5, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biological nutrient removal · Tertiary treatment · all terms