City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division
Wheeling, WV · Ohio County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 4.8 MGD
- Design flow
- 10 MGD
- NPDES permit
- WV0023230
- Expired
- Permit expires
- June 2010
- Population served
- 42,483
- CWNS 2022
City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia treating an average of 4.8 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 10 MGD, serving about 42,483 residents. Treatment on site includes clarifiers, biogas silos, biological treatment, other, biosolids anaerobic digestion without energy recovery, biosolids mechanical dewatering and other unit processes. It discharges under NPDES permit WV0023230 (expired), which expires in June 2010, with 130 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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Biogas silos
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Biological Treatment, Other
unit processBiosolids Anaerobic Digestion without Energy Recovery
unit processBiosolids Mechanical Dewatering
unit processBiosolids Thickening
unit processDechlorination
unit processDisinfection, UV
unit processDisinfection, chlorine/ chloramine
unit processPrimary Clarification or Sedimentation
unit processScreening
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 130
- Effluent violations
- 108
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
Key contacts
2 verified contacts for City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division: 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 April 24, 2025.