West District Wastewater Treatment Plant
1510 I - 10 East, Baytown, TX 77520 · Harris County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 6.53 MGD
- Design flow
- 8 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0072834
- Effective
- Permit expires
- October 2029
- Population served
- 28,533
- CWNS 2022
West District Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Baytown, Harris County, Texas treating an average of 6.53 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 8 MGD, serving about 28,533 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0072834 (effective), which expires in October 2029, with 4 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2022.
Treatment technology
6 treatment structures and unit processes identified at West District Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 4
- 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 West District Wastewater Treatment Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 1 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $300
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $9,459
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Dec 2010
Latest case · Apr 2022
City of Baytown
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Complaint Filed · The case also names 2 other plants, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“The City of Baytown, TX has multiple violations of Section 301 of the Clean Water Act, CWA. The violations include Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs), and effluent limit violations of the Texas…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2022-1773.
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Every action against West District Wastewater Treatment Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Capital improvement projects in Baytown
Baytown's capital improvement plan lists 37 water, sewer and wastewater line items worth $342M starting 2025–2029. The largest budgeted items are shown here.
All water and sewer capital projects in Baytown →
| Project | Budget | Years |
|---|---|---|
| BAWA East Surface Water Plant Phase 2 Expansion | $52,000,000 | 2026–2026 |
| IH-10 Lift Station #2 Force Main and Gravity System Improvements | $35,500,000 | 2025–2027 |
| Neighborhood Waterline Area- Wooster Terrace | $29,224,967 | 2029–2030 |
| IH-10 Lift Station #1 Improvements | $21,000,000 | 2025–2025 |
| Lead Service Line Replacement | $18,000,000 | 2025–2027 |
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Key contacts
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West District 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 May 27, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms