West Virginia NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 231 municipal wastewater permits · issued by WVDEP
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in West Virginia?
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 ESS Public Query. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 3,528 industrial permits in West Virginia are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
89
Administratively continued
45
Expired
95
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
208
Where to find official West Virginia NPDES records
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) runs the NPDES program in West Virginia under authorization from EPA Region 3. It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. WVDEP website ↗
permits
The public search of WVDEP’s Electronic Submission System, which covers the permits of its water, air and mining divisions. WVDEP says no account is needed.
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 WVDEP’s eDMR in its Electronic Submission System; paper reports are no longer accepted.
- Violations and enforcement
- WVDEP’s consent orders out for public comment ↗
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in West Virginia
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 3,528 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in West Virginia (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 86 of them major dischargers, plus 3,987 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 574 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 3,528 industrial permits in West Virginia
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in West Virginia by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in West Virginia: 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 West Virginia wastewater plants
208 of the 231 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 214 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 30 formal cases naming West Virginia wastewater plants, 15 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $864,900 in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in West Virginia →
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.
Largest permit holders in West Virginia
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Charleston Wwtw | South Charleston | 4.7 | 13 | WV0023116 | Expired | Jan 2012 | 26 |
| Huntington WWTP | Huntington | 10.72 | — | WVL023159 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 72 |
| City Of Wheeling - Water Pollution Control Division | Wheeling | 6.65 | 10 | WV0023230 | Expired | Jun 2010 | 130 |
| Clarksburg Sanitary Bd | Clarksburg | 5.7 | 8 | WV0023302 | Administratively continued | Apr 2015 | 584 |
| Fairmont Wastewater Treatment Plant | Fairmont | 6.18 | — | WVL023353 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 52 |
| Oh/ Inw/ Bh/ NE 001-004 | Martinsburg | 1.43 | 5.9 | WV0082759 | Expired | Jun 2008 | 476 |
| Parkersburg Utility Board | Parkersburg | 5.53 | — | WVL023213 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 3 |
| Moorefield/hardy County Regional Wastewater | Moorefield | 2.79 | 4.1 | WV0106038 | Administratively continued | May 2026 | 18 |
| Weirton, City Of | Weirton | 3.77 | — | WVL023108 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 84 |
| Princeton, City Of | Princeton | 3.64 | — | WVL023094 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 21 |
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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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