Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant
1801 Richmond Ter, Staten Island, NY 10310 · Richmond County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 23 MGD
- Design flow
- 60 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0026107
- Effective
- Permit expires
- June 2027
- Population served
- 205,835
- CWNS 2022
Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York treating an average of 23 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 60 MGD, serving about 205,835 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0026107 (effective), which expires in June 2027, with 2 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in October 2017.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 2
- Effluent violations
- 2
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 Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1.3M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $95M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Oct 2017
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Judicial case · RCRA, Inspections, Monitoring, Testing, Corrective Actions · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $1.3M · Compliance actions $95M · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2002-0013.
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Every action against Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
45 verified contacts for Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Port Richmond 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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated July 2, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biological nutrient removal · Tertiary treatment · all terms