Tamaqua Boro
Spruce Street, Tamaqua, PA 18252 · Schuylkill County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.42 MGD
- Design flow
- 2.6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- PA0027006
- Effective
- Permit expires
- March 2029
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
Tamaqua Boro is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania treating an average of 1.42 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2.6 MGD. It discharges under NPDES permit PA0027006 (effective), which expires in March 2029, with 19 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in October 2024.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Tamaqua Boro.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 19
- Effluent violations
- 10
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 Tamaqua Boro in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 2 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $10,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $22M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Oct 2024
BOROUGH OF TAMAQUA AND TAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY (BOROUGH OF, TAMAQUA WWTP)
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On September 25, 2024, the Regional Judicial Officer executed a Final Order ratifying the Consent Agreement entered into by the Director of ECAD and the Borough of Tamaqua ( Respondent ) for…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 03-2024-0126.
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Every action against Tamaqua Boro with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Tamaqua Boro: 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 12, 2026; facility record last updated May 25, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biological nutrient removal · Tertiary treatment · all terms