Taos Wastewater Treatment Plant
Taos, NM · Taos County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.03 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.25 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0024066
- Effective
- Permit expires
- October 2030
- Population served
- 14,119
- CWNS 2022
Taos Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Taos, Taos County, New Mexico treating an average of 1.03 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.25 MGD, serving about 14,119 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0024066 (effective), which expires in October 2030, with 56 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Clarifiers
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 56
- Effluent violations
- 25
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Capital improvement projects in Taos
Taos's capital improvement plan lists 15 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $13M starting 2025–2025. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Mitigation Well | $3,487,994 | 2025–2026 |
| UNM Klauer Well | $2,146,005 | 2025–2026 |
| Land Acquisition - WWTP Retention Pond | $1,928,601 | 2025–2026 |
| WWTP Rehabilitation | $1,730,060 | 2025–2026 |
| Camino Medio Well Pump | $1,243,432 | 2025–2026 |
Full project details — scope, funding source, engineering consultant and the decision-makers behind each project — are available in Klarifi, along with similar wastewater capital projects in other cities.
Key contacts
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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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated August 10, 2026.