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Cherokee WWTP

2000 Old Number 4 Rd, Cherokee, NC 28719 · Swain County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works

Average flow
1.41 MGD
Design flow
6 MGD
NPDES permit
NC0052469
Effective
Permit expires
April 2030
Population served
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CWNS 2022

Cherokee WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina treating an average of 1.41 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 6 MGD. It discharges under NPDES permit NC0052469 (effective), which expires in April 2030, with 8 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in January 2018.

Treatment technology

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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)

Total violations
8
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 Cherokee WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.

Formal actions
3
0 since FY2020
Compliance actions
$126,000
required by EPA orders
EPA inspections
2
latest Feb 2004

Latest case · Jan 2018

EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS

Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $126,000

Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 04-2011-4762.

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Key contacts

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Cherokee WWTP: 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 May 20, 2025.

Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Centrate · Ozonation · all terms


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