Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant
Brooklyn, NY · 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. Treatment on site includes biogas silos. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0026166 (effective), which expires in June 2027, with 9 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Biogas silos
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 9
- Effluent violations
- 9
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
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Owls Head Water Pollution Control 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated March 4, 2025.