Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant
408 North Main Street, Rusk, TX 75785 · Cherokee County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.07 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.75 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0054399
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- March 2026
- Population served
- 6,135
- CWNS 2022
Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas treating an average of 1.07 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.75 MGD, serving about 6,135 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0054399 (administratively continued), which expires in March 2026, with 9 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in May 2024.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 9
- Effluent violations
- 9
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 Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 1 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $1,150
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $500,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest May 2024
Latest case · May 2024
Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant-Rusk, TX-RMP ESA-FY2024
Administrative order · CAA, Prevention of Accidental Release/Risk Management Plans (RMPs) · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $400
EPA's description of the case:
“On December 5, 2022, EPA Risk Management Program Reporting Center sent a letter to Respondent, notifying Respondent of its failure to update the Risk Management Plan on file with the EPA for its…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2024-3337.
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Every action against Rusk Wastewater Treatment Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Rusk 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 August 6, 2026.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Lift station · Sludge dewatering · all terms