Kansas NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 355 municipal wastewater permits · issued by KDHE
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Kansas?
Search this page by permit number or plant name for a municipal plant’s permit status, expiry date and violations. For the official file, search KDHE’s KEIMS or the KEIMS public notices. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 1,113 industrial permits in Kansas are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
345
Administratively continued
9
Expired
0
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
228
Where to find official Kansas NPDES records
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) runs the NPDES program in Kansas under authorization from EPA Region 7. It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. KDHE website ↗
permits · enforcement
Type the facility name or permit number in the search bar, or use Advanced Search with Permit Number or Permit Program; Export downloads the results.
permit documents
Set Program Area to “BOW - Wastewater” and open a notice for the draft permit documents.
permits · DMRs · inspections · violations · enforcement
EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online. Search water facilities by permit number, name or city; the Detailed Facility Report lists inspections, violations and enforcement actions, and Effluent Charts plot monitoring results against the permit limits.
- Permit numbers
- KEIMS shows EPA’s number with a version, such as KS0118249 v2.0; master general permits start KSG.
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through KEIMS, KDHE’s own reporting system.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Kansas
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 1,113 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Kansas (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 29 of them major dischargers, plus 501 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 139 of the individual permits recorded at least one effluent violation in the last three years.
| Facility | Permit | Status | Expires | Effluent violations |
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Unlock 1,113 industrial permits in Kansas
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Kansas by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Kansas: permits in force (effective or administratively continued) held by facilities EPA does not class as publicly owned treatment works or federal facilities. Source: EPA ICIS-NPDES via Klarifi, October 2026.
Violations at Kansas wastewater plants
228 of the 355 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 255 had a violation of any kind, including late or missing monitoring reports. Each plant’s page shows its own count. EPA’s enforcement records list 38 formal cases naming Kansas wastewater plants, 10 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $177,188 in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in Kansas →
Permit renewals by year
An NPDES permit runs for five years. To keep discharging, a plant must apply for renewal at least 180 days before the expiry date, and the renewed permit usually arrives with tighter effluent limits, new monitoring requirements or a compliance schedule. That is why the year a permit expires is the year a plant starts budgeting for upgrades: nutrient removal, disinfection, capacity or controls.
2029: 84 permits
2030: 74 permits
2031: 19 permits
Largest permit holders in Kansas
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Water Pollution Control Div. | Kansas City | 17.31 | — | KS0038563 | Effective | May 2030 | 0 |
| Joco Tomahawk Creek | Leawood | 14.9 | — | KS0100854 | Effective | Apr 2031 | 1 |
| Joco Mill Creek Regional Wtf | Shawnee | 11.46 | — | KS0088269 | Effective | Jan 2030 | 0 |
| Joco Nelson Complex Wastewater Plant | Mission | 11.17 | — | KS0055492 | Effective | Jan 2030 | 50 |
| Topeka Oakland Wastewater Plant | Topeka | 11.13 | — | KS0042722 | Effective | Jan 2027 | 64 |
| Joco Douglas Smith Mid Basin | Overland Park | 10.79 | — | KS0119601 | Effective | Feb 2027 | 0 |
| Lawrence, City Of | Lawrence | 7.45 | — | KS0038644 | Effective | Jul 2029 | 14 |
| Joco Blue River District #1 | Stanley | 6.3 | — | KS0092738 | Effective | Dec 2027 | 0 |
| Olathe (cedar Creek) Wastewater Plant | Olathe | 4.47 | — | KS0081299 | Effective | Dec 2029 | 0 |
| Emporia Wastewater Treatment Plant | Emporia | 4.21 | — | KS0046728 | Effective | Apr 2028 | 27 |
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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 October 12, 2026.
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