North Wastewater Treatment Plant
Athens, TX 75751 · Henderson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.65 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.03 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0025372
- Effective
- Permit expires
- May 2027
- Population served
- 5,718
- CWNS 2022
North Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Athens, Henderson County, Texas treating an average of 0.65 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.03 MGD, serving about 5,718 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0025372 (effective), which expires in May 2027, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in January 2024.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at North Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1
- Effluent violations
- 1
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EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for North Wastewater Treatment Plant 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 · Jan 2024
City of Athens
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On December 20, 2021, EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to the City of Athens Wastewater Treatment Plant. The AO was…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2022-1703.
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North Wastewater Treatment Plant: 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 May 27, 2025.
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