Contentnea Metropolitan Sewerage District
Grifton, NC · Pitt County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.44 MGD
- Design flow
- 3.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NC0032077
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- November 2025
- Population served
- 18,158
- CWNS 2022
Contentnea Metropolitan Sewerage District is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Grifton, Pitt County, North Carolina treating an average of 1.44 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 3.5 MGD, serving about 18,158 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, aerated lagoons, uncovered lagoons, carrousels / oxidation ditches. It discharges under NPDES permit NC0032077 (administratively continued), which expires in November 2025, with 0 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Clarifiers
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Aerated lagoons
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Uncovered lagoons
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Carrousels / oxidation ditches
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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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Contentnea Metropolitan Sewerage District: 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 August 18, 2026.