NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP
12266 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207 · Kings County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 39.7 MGD
- Design flow
- 85 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0026212
- Effective
- Permit expires
- June 2027
- Population served
- 294,453
- CWNS 2022
NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York treating an average of 39.7 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 85 MGD, serving about 294,453 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0026212 (effective), which expires in June 2027, with 12 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2012.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 12
- Effluent violations
- 12
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $6.1M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Apr 2012
NYCDEP 26th Ward Water Pollution Control Plant
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Discharge without a Permit · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $5.9M
EPA's description of the case:
“In October 2008, NYCDEP 26th Ward Regulator No. 1 collapsed causing 1.8 Million Gallons of raw sewage to discharge into Hendrix Creek/Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn NY. This Order allows a time extension…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2012-3028.
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Every action against NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Brooklyn · 6 mi away
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Brooklyn · 7 mi away
187.2 MGD
Brooklyn · 8 mi away
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Atlantic Beach · 8 mi away
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Astoria · 9 mi away
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NYC DEP 26 Ward WPCP: 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 24, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Activated sludge · Oxidation ditch · all terms