Athens West WWTP
2300 Cr 1500, Athens, TX 75751 · Henderson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.83 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.37 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0025364
- Effective
- Permit expires
- May 2027
- Population served
- 6,401
- CWNS 2022
Athens West WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Athens, Henderson County, Texas treating an average of 0.83 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.37 MGD, serving about 6,401 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0025364 (effective), which expires in May 2027, with 3 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in November 2022.
Treatment technology
6 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Athens West WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 3
- Effluent violations
- 3
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 Athens West WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $12,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Nov 2022
City of Athens
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $12,000
EPA's description of the case:
“The EPA Administrative Order, Docket 06-2023-1714 was issued to the City of Athens for violations of permit effluent violations. The exceedences met the critera for Significant Non-Compliance. The…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2023-1714.
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Every action against Athens West WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Athens West 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 26, 2025.
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