Village Of Chama
Chama, NM · Rio Arriba County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.08 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.3 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NM0027731
- Effective
- Permit expires
- February 2028
- Population served
- 917
- CWNS 2022
Village Of Chama is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Chama, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico treating an average of 0.08 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.3 MGD, serving about 917 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, uncovered lagoons, carrousels / oxidation ditches. It discharges under NPDES permit NM0027731 (effective), which expires in February 2028, with 171 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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Uncovered lagoons
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Carrousels / oxidation ditches
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 171
- Effluent violations
- 171
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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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 November 14, 2025.