Potsdam (v) WPCP
Outer Cherry Street, Potsdam, NY 13676 · Saint Lawrence County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.36 MGD
- Design flow
- 3.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0020818
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- July 2025
- Population served
- 9,154
- CWNS 2022
Potsdam (v) WPCP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Potsdam, Saint Lawrence County, New York treating an average of 1.36 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 3.5 MGD, serving about 9,154 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0020818 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2025, with 25 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in November 2005.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Potsdam (v) WPCP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 25
- Effluent violations
- 17
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 Potsdam (v) WPCP 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 · Nov 2005
Village of Potsdam
Administrative order · CWA, Information Request, Records, Entry · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $500
EPA's description of the case:
“Failure to submit DMR-QA.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2006-3021.
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Every action against Potsdam (v) WPCP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Lisbon · 16 mi away
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Waddington · 16 mi away
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Rensselaer Falls · 17 mi away
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Potsdam (v) 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 5, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Ozonation · Activated sludge · all terms