Charles Town Utility Board
Wv Rt. 9 E, Charles Town, WV 25414 · Jefferson County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 1.22 MGD
- Design flow
- —
- NPDES permit
- WVL022349
- Effective
- Permit expires
- December 2030
- Population served
- 3,510
- CWNS 2022
Charles Town Utility Board is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia treating an average of 1.22 million gallons per day, serving about 3,510 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit WVL022349 (effective), which expires in December 2030, with 49 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 1 formal enforcement action naming the plant, the latest in October 2025.
Treatment technology
6 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Charles Town Utility Board.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 49
- Effluent violations
- 45
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 Charles Town Utility Board in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 1
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $20M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Oct 2025
CHARLES TOWN, CITY OF (CHARLES TOWN WWTP)
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty · Compliance actions $20M
EPA's description of the case:
“On October 12, 2023, EPA Region III entered into an Administrative Order on Consent, with the City of Charles Town, WV, and the Charles Town Utility Board, Charles Town, WV, addressing CWA NPDES…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 03-2024-0019.
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Every action against Charles Town Utility Board with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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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 14, 2026; facility record last updated August 4, 2026.