Columbus WWTP
Columbus, NC · Polk County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 0.8 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NC0021369
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- July 2023
- Population served
- 1,243
- CWNS 2022
Columbus WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Columbus, Polk County, North Carolina, serving about 1,243 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, aerated lagoons, uncovered lagoons. It discharges under NPDES permit NC0021369 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2023, with 0 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 0
- Effluent violations
- 0
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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0.53 MGD
Columbus 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated March 12, 2025.