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Taos Wastewater Treatment Plant

182 Los Cordovas Rd, Ranchos De Taos, Taos, NM 87571 · Taos County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
1.02 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 1.02 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.25 MGD, serving about 14,119 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0024066 (effective), which expires in October 2030, with 55 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 7 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in October 2025.

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One treatment structure or unit process identified at Taos Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
55
Effluent violations
24

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 Taos Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
7
4 since FY2020
Penalties assessed
$1,000
all cases
Compliance actions
$6,500
required by EPA orders
EPA inspections
2
latest Sep 2021

Latest case · Oct 2025

Town of Taos WWTP

Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Superseded by Another Enforcement Action

EPA's description of the case:

“Failure to meet schedule in previous AO. Revised, more realistic, schedule in new AO.”

Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2024-1766.

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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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ProjectBudgetYears
Mitigation Well$3,487,9942025–2026
UNM Klauer Well$2,146,0052025–2026
Land Acquisition - WWTP Retention Pond$1,928,6012025–2026
WWTP Rehabilitation$1,730,0602025–2026
Camino Medio Well Pump$1,243,4322025–2026

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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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated August 10, 2026.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · FOG · Equalization tank · all terms


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