Wharton WWTP 1
Wharton, TX · Wharton County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.6 MGD
- Design flow
- 1.5 MGD
- NPDES permit
- TX0021288
- Effective
- Permit expires
- April 2030
- Population served
- 8,756
- CWNS 2022
Wharton WWTP 1 is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Wharton, Wharton County, Texas treating an average of 0.6 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 1.5 MGD, serving about 8,756 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers. It discharges under NPDES permit TX0021288 (effective), which expires in April 2030, with 5 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Clarifiers
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 5
- Effluent violations
- 5
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
13 verified contacts for Wharton WWTP 1, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated February 27, 2025.