Salem City Of
Old Rt 50 E, Salem, WV 26426 · Harrison County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.43 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.4 MGD
- NPDES permit
- WV0020257
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- April 2014
- Population served
- 1,782
- CWNS 2022
Salem City Of is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia treating an average of 0.43 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.4 MGD, serving about 1,782 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit WV0020257 (administratively continued), which expires in April 2014, with 185 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in December 2024.
Treatment technology
4 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Salem City Of.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 185
- Effluent violations
- 153
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 Salem City Of in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 2 since FY2020
- Penalties assessed
- $25,000
- all cases
- Compliance actions
- $5M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Dec 2024
CITY OF SALEM (SALEM, CITY OF WWTP)
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order With Penalty · Penalty $25,000
EPA's description of the case:
“On September 26, 2024, the Regional Judicial Officer executed a Final Order ratifying the Consent Agreement entered into by the Director of ECAD and the City of Salem ( Respondent ) for violations of…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 03-2024-0061.
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Every action against Salem City Of with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
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Salem City Of: 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 August 6, 2026.
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