Red Cliff Band WWTF
88385 Pike Road, Bayfield, WI 54814 · Bayfield County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.49 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.22 MGD
- NPDES permit
- WI0049727
- Administratively continued
- Permit expires
- September 2024
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
Red Cliff Band WWTF is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Bayfield, Bayfield County, Wisconsin treating an average of 0.49 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.22 MGD. It discharges under NPDES permit WI0049727 (administratively continued), which expires in September 2024, with 31 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 3 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in July 2023.
Treatment technology
2 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Red Cliff Band WWTF.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 31
- Effluent violations
- 31
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 Red Cliff Band WWTF in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 3
- 2 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $455,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Jul 2023
Red Cliff Band AOC
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Superseded by Another Enforcement Action · Compliance actions $200,000
EPA's description of the case:
“AOC will require the Band to implement treatment process improvements and construct a new alum treatment system to address the remaining effluent limit violations.”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2022-0321.
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Every action against Red Cliff Band WWTF with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
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Nearby wastewater treatment plants in Wisconsin
La Pointe · 5 mi away
0.03 MGD
Bayfield · 5 mi away
0.11 MGD
Cornucopia · 14 mi away
0.04 MGD
Washburn · 15 mi away
0.18 MGD
Odanah · 18 mi away
0.05 MGD
Ashland · 19 mi away
0.95 MGD
Herbster · 23 mi away
0.03 MGD
Port Wing · 29 mi away
0.03 MGD
Red Cliff Band WWTF: 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 September 14, 2026.
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