Rural Retreat Wastewater Treatment Plant
Rural Retreat, VA · Wythe County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.14 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.25 MGD
- NPDES permit
- VA0021326
- Effective
- Permit expires
- June 2029
- Population served
- 2,500
- CWNS 2022
Rural Retreat Wastewater Treatment Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia treating an average of 0.14 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.25 MGD, serving about 2,500 residents. Treatment on site includes biological n removal, biosolids aerobic digestion, biosolids thickening, primary clarification or sedimentation, screening and other unit processes. It discharges under NPDES permit VA0021326 (effective), which expires in June 2029, with 12 recorded violations in the last three years.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures identified at this facility. Exact unit counts are available in Klarifi.
Biological N removal
unit processBiosolids Aerobic Digestion
unit processBiosolids Thickening
unit processPrimary Clarification or Sedimentation
unit processScreening
unit processSuspended Growth, Aerobic
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 12
- Effluent violations
- 12
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
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Rural Retreat 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 September 11, 2026; facility record last updated July 18, 2023.