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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COR901284

MONTEZUMA COUNTY LANDFILL, Cortez, CO: NPDES COR901284 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MONTEZUMA COUNTY LANDFILL, held by Montezuma County, holds NPDES permit COR901284, which discharges to Surface Drainage - Mcelmo Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 6, 2016 and expiring June 1, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedMONTEZUMA COUNTY LANDFILL
Permittee as filedMontezuma County
NPDES IDCOR901284
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJanuary 6, 2016
Expiration dateJune 1, 2017
AddressCortez, CO 81321
Receiving watersurface drainage - McElmo Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHighline Ditch-McElmo Creek (HUC 140802020104)
SIC4953 – Refuse Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended240
Iron, total [as Fe]240

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COR901284.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES COR901284.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The Montezuma County Landfill in Cortez, CO holds NPDES permit COR901284, classed as a minor discharger, with a permit status of administratively continued and an expiration date of June 1, 2017. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the receiving water Surface Drainage - McElmo Creek and the subwatershed Highline Ditch-McElmo Creek (HUC 140802020104).