Elgin WWTP
720 Cleveland St, Elgin, TX 78621 · Bastrop County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.65 MGD
- Design flow
- 2 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0073946
- Effective
- Permit expires
- March 2030
- Population served
- 7,640
- CWNS 2022
Elgin WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas treating an average of 1.65 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 2 MGD, serving about 7,640 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0073946 (effective), which expires in March 2030, with 89 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in February 2024.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Elgin WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 89
- Effluent violations
- 66
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 Elgin WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $10,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Feb 2024
City of Elgin Administrative Order
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order Issued · Compliance actions $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“The Order to City of Elgin in Texas was issued for violations of the TPDES permit. The violations reached Significant Noncompliance Status. The order requires submission of a corrective action report…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2024-1738.
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Every action against Elgin WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Elgin 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 March 1, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms