The City of Bartlesville recently applied to renew its waste water discharge permit for the Chickasaw Waste Water Treatment Plant — a lengthy process that is done only twice a decade and could result in additional requirements for the plant, according to Water Utilities Director Terry Lauritsen.
“The applications process requires a significant amount of data to be submitted to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and could result in additional requirements for our wastewater treatment process,” Lauritsen said.
Lauritsen said the ODEQ will review the information based on current regulations and make a determination.
“They will either renew our current permit or add more requirements,” he said.
Lauritsen said the last renewal was in 2013.
The Chickasaw Waste Water Treatment Plant is located at 230 N. Chickasaw. An annual average of 7.314 million gallons of water are treated at the plant per day, with the lowest monthly average of 5.327 million gallons per day and the highest average use, typically during peak summer months, at 12.511 million gallons per day.
Part of the application process requires the application to be posted on the City’s website. See 2018 WWTP Permit Application to view the entire application.