Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center
6000 Canal Rd, Cleveland, OH 44125 · Cuyahoga County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 110.09 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- OHL024651
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2030
- Population served
- 555,185
- CWNS 2022
Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio treating an average of 110.09 million gallons per day, serving about 555,185 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit OHL024651 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in September 2024.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- Effluent violations
- 4
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 Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1.2M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $3,033M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Sep 2024
NEORSD - Cleveland
Judicial case · CWA, Information Request, Records, Entry · Final Order Entered · Penalty $1.2M · Compliance actions $3,033M · The case also names 2 other plants, and its amounts cover all of them
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2003-0627.
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Every action against Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
1 verified contact for Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center: 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 23, 2025.
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