Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant
1100 Mayhill Road, Denton, TX 76208 · Denton County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 20.72 MGD
- Design flow
- 21 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0047180
- Effective
- Permit expires
- July 2028
- Population served
- 148,099
- CWNS 2022
Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Denton, Denton County, Texas treating an average of 20.72 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 21 MGD, serving about 148,099 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0047180 (effective), which expires in July 2028, with 5 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 7 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2019.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 5
- 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 Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 7
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $46,800
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $27M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 3
- latest Jan 2008
Latest case · Apr 2019
City of Denton
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $10M · The case also names 1 other plant, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“The City of Denton was issued an Adminstrative Order for violations of permit limits and Sanitary Sewer Overflows. The City of Denton has two (2) treatment plants, Pecan Creek (TX47180) and Robson…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2014-1760.
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Every action against Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Pecan Creek Water Reclamation 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.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Biological nutrient removal · Tertiary treatment · all terms