City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant
1200 Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14303 · Niagara County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 27.15 MGD
- Design flow
- 48 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0026336
- Effective
- Permit expires
- August 2031
- Population served
- 48,252
- CWNS 2022
City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York treating an average of 27.15 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 48 MGD, serving about 48,252 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0026336 (effective), which expires in August 2031, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in April 2023.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1
- Effluent violations
- 1
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 City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $869
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest May 2004
Latest case · Apr 2023
Niagara Falls Water Board
Administrative order · CWA, Effluent Limitations - NPDES Toxic & Pretreatment Effluent Standards · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $869
EPA's description of the case:
“Respondent failed to implement its industrial pretreatment program as approved and in accordance with the General Pretreatment Regulations at 40 CFR 403.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2023-3030.
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Every action against City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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City Of Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant: 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 March 6, 2025.
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