Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility
700' SW Crossing Of Gruene Loo, New Braunfels, TX 78130 · Comal County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 2.12 MGD
- Design flow
- 4.9 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0070939
- Effective
- Permit expires
- July 2031
- Population served
- 4,283
- CWNS 2022
Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas treating an average of 2.12 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 4.9 MGD, serving about 4,283 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0070939 (effective), which expires in July 2031, with 0 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in May 2015.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 0
- Effluent violations
- 0
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 Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $5,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · May 2015
New Braunfels Utilities
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $5,000
EPA's description of the case:
“New Braunfels Utilities was issued an Administrative Order for violating its permitted effluent limits for Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand for the months of Dec. 2013; Jan., March, and April…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2015-1736.
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Every action against Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Gruene Road Water Reclamation Facility: 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 11, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · FOG · Equalization tank · all terms