Plainview City Of POTW
2.0 Mls SE Of Plainview, Plainview, TX 79072 · Hale County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.42 MGD
- Design flow
- 3.3 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0047571
- Effective
- Permit expires
- January 2030
- Population served
- 20,767
- CWNS 2022
Plainview City Of POTW is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Plainview, Hale County, Texas treating an average of 1.42 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 3.3 MGD, serving about 20,767 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0047571 (effective), which expires in January 2030, with 0 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in December 2004.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Plainview City Of POTW.
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 Plainview City Of POTW in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $75,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $1.6M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 3
- latest Jan 2005
Latest case · Dec 2004
PLAINVIEW, CITY OF POTW
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Discharge without a Permit · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $75,000 · Compliance actions $1.6M
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2001-3713.
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Every action against Plainview City Of POTW with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
Decision-makers at Plainview City Of POTW.
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Plainview City Of POTW: 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 October 19, 2024.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms