City Of West Columbia
512 East Brazos, West Columbia, TX 77486 · Brazoria County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 2.31 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.6 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0026182
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2030
- Population served
- 7,176
- CWNS 2022
City Of West Columbia is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in West Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas treating an average of 2.31 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.6 MGD, serving about 7,176 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0026182 (effective), which expires in April 2030, with 34 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 4 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2024.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at City Of West Columbia.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 34
- Effluent violations
- 34
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 West Columbia in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 4
- 1 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $2,083
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $20,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Apr 2024
City of West Columbia AO
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $20,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On June 24, 2022, EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to the City of West Columbia Wastewater Treatment Plant. The AO…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2022-1775.
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Every action against City Of West Columbia with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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City Of West Columbia: 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 December 24, 2024.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Anaerobic digester · Lift station · all terms