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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0054828

DNR BIG SPRING TROUT HATCHERY, Elkader, IA: NPDES IA0054828 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DNR BIG SPRING TROUT HATCHERY, held by IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, holds NPDES permit IA0054828. EPA’s file records it issued March 1, 2020 and expiring February 28, 2025. 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.

What the register holds for DNR BIG SPRING TROUT HATCHERY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Elkader, Iowa. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES IA0054828.

Identity

Facility as filedDNR BIG SPRING TROUT HATCHERY
Permittee as filedIOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
NPDES IDIA0054828
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 1, 2020
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2025
Issuing agencySTA
AddressElkader, IA 52043
SubwatershedFrench Hollow-Turkey River (HUC 070600040709)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES IA0054828.

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 IA0054828.

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

The DNR BIG SPRING TROUT HATCHERY permit (NPDES ID IA0054828) is one of 2 NPDES permits in the French Hollow-Turkey River subwatershed, this one included. Among the 7 individual permits in Clayton County, this one is one of 7, and 71.4% of those county permits have a violation on file. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both recorded as 0.