City Of Houston Sims Bayou South
3013 Galveston Rd, Houston, TX 77017 · Harris County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 36 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0105058
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- May 2000
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
City Of Houston Sims Bayou South is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Houston, Harris County, Texas. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0105058 (administratively continued), which expires in May 2000, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2021.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at City Of Houston Sims Bayou South.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1
- Effluent violations
- 1
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 City Of Houston Sims Bayou South in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $4.4M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $2,000M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Apr 2021
Houston, City of
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · The case also names 7 other plants, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“**VIOLATIONS: 1) Discharging pollutants from its facilities that exceeded permitted effluent limitations; and 2) Incomplete or no NCRs. **RELIEF SOUGHT: a) Within 30 days, submit the required NCRs;…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2002-1873.
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Every action against City Of Houston Sims Bayou South with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Houston
Houston's capital improvement plan lists 22 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $1.3B starting 2025–2025. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
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| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements | $353,943,200 | 2025–2025 |
| Wastewater Treatment Plant Consolidation | $166,807,000 | 2025–2025 |
| Surface Water Transmission Program | $132,740,144 | 2025–2025 |
| Neighborhood Sewer Rehab Program | $96,000,000 | 2025–2025 |
| Pump Station Program | $87,851,600 | 2025–2025 |
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Key contacts
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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 October 26, 2026; facility record last updated May 26, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Ozonation · Activated sludge · all terms