29.1 Sector Descriptions and Overview

This source category, Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), includes treatment works owned by a state, municipality, city, town, special sewer district, or other publicly owned and financed entity as opposed to a privately (industrial) owned treatment facility. The definition includes intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment. The wastewater treated by these POTWs is generated by industrial, commercial, and domestic sources [ref 1]. The SCC that EPA uses for estimated nonpoint emissions is 2630020000; the SCC description is “Waste Disposal, Treatment, and Recovery; Wastewater Treatment; Public Owned; Total Processed”.