Utah NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 27 municipal wastewater permits · issued by Utah DEQ as UPDES permits
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Utah?
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 the Utah DEQ Environmental Interactive Map or DEQ’s page of current UPDES permits. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 256 industrial permits in Utah are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
22
Administratively continued
5
Expired
0
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
17
Where to find official Utah NPDES records
Utah Department of Environmental Quality (Utah DEQ) runs the NPDES program in Utah under authorization from EPA Region 8, as the Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (UPDES). It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. EPA Region 8 issues the permits on tribal lands. Utah DEQ website ↗
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Under “Select Map Data”, open Water Quality and tick “UPDES Dischargers”, then search or filter that layer to find the facility.
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Utah DEQ’s page of current UPDES permits, linked from EPA’s Utah page.
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.
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through EPA’s NetDMR.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Utah
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 256 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Utah (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 25 of them major dischargers, plus 642 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 51 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 256 industrial permits in Utah
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Utah by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Utah: 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 Utah wastewater plants
17 of the 27 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 19 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 5 formal cases naming Utah wastewater plants, 0 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $10,025 in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in Utah →
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.
2026: 1 permits
2027: 1 permits
2028: 3 permits
2029: 7 permits
2030: 6 permits
2031: 4 permits
Largest permit holders in Utah
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Plant | Salt Lake City | 36.76 | 56 | UT0021725 | Effective | Dec 2029 | 1 |
| Central Weber Sewer Improvement District | Ogden | — | 45 | UT0021911 | Effective | Jul 2030 | 4 |
| Timpanogos Special Serv. Dist. | American Fork | — | 30 | UT0023639 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 1 |
| Orem City Corporation | Orem | — | 13.5 | UT0020915 | Effective | Mar 2031 | 2 |
| Central Davis Sd | Kaysville | 10.17 | 9.95 | UT0020974 | Administratively continued | Apr 2025 | 0 |
| Spanish Fork City Corporation | Spanish Fork | 5.81 | 5 | UT0020109 | Effective | Jan 2027 | 99 |
| Ashley Valley Water & Sewer Imp Dist | Vernal | — | 4.7 | UT0025348 | Administratively continued | Nov 2021 | 1 |
| Cedar City Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility | Cedar City | 4.28 | 4.4 | UT0024970 | Effective | Jun 2028 | 0 |
| South Davis Sewer Improvement District South Plant | North Salt Lake | — | 4.3 | UT0021628 | Effective | Dec 2026 | 1 |
| Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District | Park City | 2.61 | 4 | UT0020001 | Effective | Apr 2031 | 0 |
Utah NPDES permits: questions
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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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