Town Of Red River
Highway 38, Taos, NM 87571 · Taos County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.02 MGD
- Design flow
- 2.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0024899
- Effective
- Permit expires
- June 2027
- Population served
- 489
- CWNS 2022
Town Of Red River is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Taos, Taos County, New Mexico treating an average of 0.02 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2.5 MGD, serving about 489 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0024899 (effective), which expires in June 2027, with 23 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in December 2019.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Town Of Red River.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 23
- Effluent violations
- 9
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 Town Of Red River in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $7,250
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $125,700
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 2
- latest May 2005
Latest case · Dec 2019
Red River, Town of
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Penalty $6,250
EPA's description of the case:
“EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Penalty Order under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the CWA to the Town of Red River, New Mexico. The Administrative Penalty Order was issued in…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2018-1786.
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Every action against Town Of Red River with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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 |
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Key contacts
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Santa Fe · 83 mi away
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Town Of Red River: 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 April 5, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms