Southeast Water Reclamation Plant
3603 Guava Avenue, Lubbock, TX 79404 · Lubbock County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 21.94 MGD
- Design flow
- 9 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0106071
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- November 2024
- Population served
- 263,075
- CWNS 2022
Southeast Water Reclamation Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas treating an average of 21.94 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 9 MGD, serving about 263,075 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0106071 (administratively continued), which expires in November 2024, with 254 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in August 2021.
Treatment technology
3 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Southeast Water Reclamation Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 254
- Effluent violations
- 254
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 Southeast Water Reclamation Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 1 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $300
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $60,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Nov 2005
Latest case · Aug 2021
City of Lubbock
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · Compliance actions $10,000
EPA's description of the case:
“The administrative order issuance to the City of Lubbock covers effluent permit violations. The order requires a corrective action plan.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2020-1776.
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Key contacts
6 verified contacts for Southeast Water Reclamation Plant, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Southeast 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 April 12, 2025.
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