Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility
1662 S Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17104 · Dauphin County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 13.2 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- PAL027197
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2030
- Population served
- 71,388
- CWNS 2022
Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania treating an average of 13.2 million gallons per day, serving about 71,388 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit PAL027197 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in March 2022.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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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 Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $41,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $82M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 3
- latest May 2022
Latest case · Mar 2022
HARRISBURG, CITY OF AND CAPITAL REGION WATER
Judicial case · CWA, Effluent Limitations - NPDES Toxic & Pretreatment Effluent Standards · Demand for Stipulated Penalties · Compliance actions $82M
EPA's description of the case:
“On March 23, 2022, Region 3, in consultation with PADEP, issued a demand to Capital Region Water (CRW) for $15,500 in stipulated penalties for violations of requirements of CWA partial consent…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 03-2010-7014.
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Every action against Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
26 verified contacts for Harrisburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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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 21, 2026; facility record last updated March 6, 2025.