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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0043095

SIOUX CITY, CITY OF STP, Sioux City, IA: NPDES IA0043095 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SIOUX CITY, CITY OF STP, held by CITY OF SIOUX CITY, holds NPDES permit IA0043095. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2020 and expiring November 30, 2025. 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 filedSIOUX CITY, CITY OF STP
Permittee as filedCITY OF SIOUX CITY
NPDES IDIA0043095
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 1, 2020
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2025
Issuing agencySTA
AddressSioux City, IA 51106
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBacon Creek-Missouri River (HUC 102300010305)
Program components on fileBiosolids, POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler IAD000766295; ICIS-AIR source IA0000001919300689

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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 suspended94242June 30, 20245,051% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual82618June 30, 2024675% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]41717June 30, 2024739% over the limit
Oil & Grease296March 31, 2019280% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]9644December 31, 20199% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]022January 31, 202022% over the limit
pH540
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia110
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]110
Nitrogen, total [as N]1000
Phosphorus, total [as P]1000
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C500
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]500
E. coli100

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 IA0043095.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IA0043095 for the SIOUX CITY, CITY OF STP in Sioux City, IA, held by CITY OF SIOUX CITY, with an administratively continued status and a Major Discharger class. The page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.