NPDES permits in West Virginia
232 permits held by publicly owned wastewater treatment plants · issued by WVDEP
Effective
73
Administratively continued
49
Expired
108
Total tracked
232
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) runs the NPDES program in West Virginia under delegation from EPA Region 3, issuing and enforcing the discharge permits listed here. Klarifi tracks 232 permits held by publicly owned treatment plants in the state, with status, expiry, design flow and three-year compliance for each. Agency website →
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.
Permit renewals by year
Largest permit holders in West Virginia
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Charleston Wwtw | South Charleston | 4 | 13 | WV0023116 | Expired | Jan 2012 | 27 |
| City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division | Wheeling | 4.8 | 10 | WV0023230 | Expired | Jun 2010 | 130 |
| Huntington WWTP | Huntington | 9.5 | — | WVL023159 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 72 |
| Clarksburg Sanitary Bd | Clarksburg | 3.99 | 8 | WV0023302 | Administratively continued | Apr 2015 | 592 |
| The Sanitary Board Of The City Of Charleston, West Virginia | Charleston | 6.28 | — | WVL023205 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 6 |
| Oh/ Inw/ Bh/ NE 001-004 | Martinsburg | 1.39 | 5.9 | WV0082759 | Expired | Jun 2008 | 471 |
| Fairmont Wastewater Treatment Plant | Fairmont | 4.4 | — | WVL023353 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 52 |
| Parkersburg Utility Board | Parkersburg | 4.25 | — | WVL023213 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 3 |
| Bridgeport Wastewater Treatment Plant | Bridgeport | 1.34 | 3 | WV0025461 | Expired | Jun 2010 | 93 |
| Martinsburg City Of WWTP | Martinsburg | 1.28 | 3 | WV0023167 | Expired | Dec 2012 | 59 |
| Princeton, City Of | Princeton | 2.9 | — | WVL023094 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 21 |
| Moorefield/hardy County Regional Wastewater | Moorefield | 2.79 | — | WV0106038 | Administratively continued | Jun 2021 | 18 |
| Buckhannon Sewer Plant | Buckhannon | 0.63 | 2.5 | WV0032336 | Expired | May 2012 | 61 |
| North Beckley Psd | Beckley | 0.99 | 2.5 | WV0027740 | Expired | Mar 2009 | 112 |
| Salt Rock Sewer Psd | Ona | 0.75 | 2.5 | WV0084450 | Administratively continued | Apr 2013 | 31 |
| Weirton, City Of | Weirton | 2.41 | — | WVL023108 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 84 |
| Keyser City Of | Keyser | 0.61 | 2.4 | WV0024392 | Expired | Nov 2011 | 124 |
| Hurricane City Of | Hurricane | 2.2 | — | WVR030010 | Effective | Sep 2030 | 75 |
| Kanawha Public Service District | Chelyan | 0.49 | 1.63 | WV0038776 | Expired | Nov 2010 | 24 |
| Follansbee City Of | Follansbee | 0.33 | 1.6 | WV0020273 | Expired | May 2011 | 0 |
| Weston City Of | Weston | 0.68 | 1.6 | WV0028088 | Expired | Jun 2015 | 252 |
| City Of Petersburg | Petersburg | 0.38 | 1.35 | WV0021792 | Expired | Feb 2016 | 75 |
| Pea Ridge Public Svc | Barboursville | 0.8 | 1.21 | WV0027413 | Administratively continued | Jun 2013 | 79 |
| City Of Ronceverte | Ronceverte | 1.1 | 1.2 | WV0024236 | Administratively continued | Mar 2014 | 199 |
| Frankfort Public Service District | Patterson Creek | 0.44 | 1.2 | WV0105988 | Effective | May 2027 | 7 |
All 232 plants in West Virginia →
NPDES permits in West Virginia: 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.