Post Point Plant
200 Mckenzie Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225 · Whatcom County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 15.62 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- WAR005561
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2029
- Population served
- 103,199
- CWNS 2022
Post Point Plant is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington treating an average of 15.62 million gallons per day, serving about 103,199 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit WAR005561 (effective), which expires in December 2029, with 1 recorded violation in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in May 2018.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Post Point Plant.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 1
- 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 Post Point Plant in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 0 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $13,120
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $25,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 2
- latest May 2017
Latest case · May 2018
Post Point Water Treatment Plant
Administrative order · CAA, Prevention of Accidental Release/Risk Management Plans (RMPs) · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $13,120 · Compliance actions $25,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On May 15, 2018, Region 10 filed an expedited settlement agreement which both initiated and concluded an administrative action against the Post Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bellingham,…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 10-2018-0281.
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Every action against Post Point Plant with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Post Point 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.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Sludge dewatering · Biological nutrient removal · all terms