Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant
6700 Shore Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11220 · Kings County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 88 MGD
- Design flow
- 120 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0026166
- Effective
- Permit expires
- June 2027
- Population served
- 787,493
- CWNS 2022
Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York treating an average of 88 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 120 MGD, serving about 787,493 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0026166 (effective), which expires in June 2027, with 9 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in December 2013.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 9
- Effluent violations
- 9
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $500
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Dec 2013
New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP)
Administrative order · CAA, Hazardous Air Pollutants · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $500 · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“A Compliance Order was issued to the Respondent under Section 113(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act for violations at their Tallman Island Wastewater Treatment Plant and Owls Head Wastewater Treatment…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2014-1002.
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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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated March 4, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · FOG · Equalization tank · all terms