Roberto R Bustamante WWTP
10001 Southside Rd, El Paso, TX 79927 · El Paso County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 33.07 MGD
- Design flow
- 39 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0101605
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2030
- Population served
- 377,670
- CWNS 2022
Roberto R Bustamante WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas treating an average of 33.07 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 39 MGD, serving about 377,670 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0101605 (effective), which expires in April 2030, with 35 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in February 2026.
Treatment technology
4 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Roberto R Bustamante WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 35
- Effluent violations
- 35
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 Roberto R Bustamante WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 2 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $62,500
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Jul 2025
Latest case · Feb 2026
El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $50,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On February 12, 2026, EPA Region 6 issued an Administrative Order (AO) under its authority pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act to El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board Roberto R…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2026-1751.
1 informal enforcement action (notices of violation and similar), the latest in Jul 2025.
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Every action against Roberto R Bustamante WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Roberto R Bustamante 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 April 12, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · WWTP · Biosolids · all terms