West Lake Houston WWTP
16880 0.5 W Lake Houston Pkwy, Humble, TX 77346 · Harris County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.26 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.45 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0128244
- Effective
- Permit expires
- September 2028
- Population served
- 6,000
- CWNS 2022
West Lake Houston WWTP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Humble, Harris County, Texas treating an average of 0.26 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.45 MGD, serving about 6,000 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0128244 (effective), which expires in September 2028, with 24 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in April 2021.
Treatment technology
One treatment structure or unit process identified at West Lake Houston WWTP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 24
- Effluent violations
- 22
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 Lake Houston WWTP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $4.4M
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $2,000M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Apr 2021
Houston, City of
Judicial case · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $4.4M · Compliance actions $2,000M · The case also names 35 other plants, and its amounts cover all of them
EPA's description of the case:
“City of Houston was issued the Consent Decree for both permit effluent violations and Sanitary Sewer Overflows.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 06-2010-1780.
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Every action against West Lake Houston WWTP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Crosby · 3 mi away
0.18 MGD
Crosby · 3 mi away
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Houston · 4 mi away
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Houston · 5 mi away
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West Lake Houston 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 10, 2025.
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