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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0053461

CERTAINTEED GYPSUM MINE, Fort Dodge, IA: NPDES IA0053461 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CERTAINTEED GYPSUM MINE, held by CERTAINTEED GYPSUM, holds NPDES permit IA0053461. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2023 and expiring March 31, 2028. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedCERTAINTEED GYPSUM MINE
Permittee as filedCERTAINTEED GYPSUM
NPDES IDIA0053461
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 1, 2023
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2028
Issuing agencySTA
AddressFort Dodge, IA 50501
SubwatershedHolliday Creek (HUC 071000040602)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler IAD005294798; ICIS-AIR source IA0000001918700015

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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 suspended480
Copper, total [as Cu]440
pH220

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES IA0053461.

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 IA0053461.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the NPDES IA0053461 Clean Water Act discharge permit held by CERTAINTEED GYPSUM for the CERTAINTEED GYPSUM MINE in Fort Dodge, IA, with permit status listed as Effective and an issue and expiration window of April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2028. The facts show 3 pollutants on file, all 3 under a numeric limit, 3 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.