Adams WWTP
63 Liberty St, Adams, NY 13605 · Jefferson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.14 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.45 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0034771
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2028
- Population served
- 2,174
- CWNS 2022
Adams WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Adams, Jefferson County, New York treating an average of 0.14 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.45 MGD, serving about 2,174 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0034771 (effective), which expires in December 2028, with 37 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in December 2003.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Adams WWTP.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 37
- Effluent violations
- 11
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 Adams WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1,300
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $2,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Dec 2003
Village of Adams
Administrative order · CWA, Violation of Existing AO · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $1,300
EPA's description of the case:
“Failure to submit report study 21.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2003-3336.
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Every action against Adams WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
Decision-makers at Adams WWTP.
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Adams WWTP: 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 May 22, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Centrate · Ozonation · all terms