Bens Creek WTP
Portage, PA · Cambria County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.0054 MGD
- Design flow
- 1 MGD
- NPDES permit
- PA0098787
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2030
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
Bens Creek WTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Portage, Cambria County, Pennsylvania treating an average of 0.0054 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1 MGD. Treatment on site includes uncovered lagoons. It discharges under NPDES permit PA0098787 (effective), which expires in April 2030, with 39 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Uncovered lagoons
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 39
- Effluent violations
- 13
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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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 May 25, 2025.