Erie County Sawmill Creek WWTP
117 N Rye Beach Rd, Huron, OH 44839 · Erie County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 3.82 MGD
- Design flow
- 2.4 MGD
- NPDES permit
- OH0053082
- Effective
- Permit expires
- November 2028
- Population served
- 6,375
- CWNS 2022
Erie County Sawmill Creek WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Huron, Erie County, Ohio treating an average of 3.82 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2.4 MGD, serving about 6,375 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit OH0053082 (effective), which expires in November 2028, with 35 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in February 2019.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at Erie County Sawmill Creek WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 35
- Effluent violations
- 33
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 Erie County Sawmill Creek WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $1.9M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Feb 2019
Erie County Commissioners SSOs
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $1.9M · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“Final AOC regarding CWA related to SSOs”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2019-0330.
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Every action against Erie County Sawmill Creek WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Nearby wastewater treatment plants in Ohio
Huron · 3 mi away
1.12 MGD
Huron · 5 mi away
0.0015 MGD
Sandusky · 7 mi away
11.27 MGD
Milan · 7 mi away
0.13 MGD
Milan · 8 mi away
0.0018 MGD
Vermilion · 9 mi away
0.0002 MGD
Norwalk · 10 mi away
2.5 MGD
Norwalk · 11 mi away
0.0048 MGD
Erie County Sawmill Creek 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 22, 2025.
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