City Of Carthage Water & Swr
1135 Hills Lake Road, Carthage, TX 75633 · Panola County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 3.34 MGD
- Design flow
- 3.6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0032361
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- July 2026
- Population served
- 8,607
- CWNS 2022
City Of Carthage Water & Swr is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Carthage, Panola County, Texas treating an average of 3.34 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 3.6 MGD, serving about 8,607 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0032361 (administratively continued), which expires in July 2026, with 26 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in March 2026.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 26
- Effluent violations
- 26
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for City Of Carthage Water & Swr in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $15,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Mar 2026
City of Carthage Administrative Order
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On March 16, 2026, EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to the City of Carthage WWTF. The AO was issued in response to…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1769.
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City Of Carthage Water & Swr: 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 March 19, 2025.
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