Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0063941
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA, Cedar Falls, IA: NPDES IA0063941 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 7Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA holds NPDES permit IA0063941. EPA’s file records it issued June 17, 2005 and expiring June 16, 2010. 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 filed | UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA |
| NPDES ID | IA0063941 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | June 17, 2005 |
| Expiration date | June 16, 2010 |
| Issuing agency | STA |
| Address | Cedar Falls, IA 50614 |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Dry Run (HUC 070802050701) |
| NAICS | 221112 – Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation |
| SIC | 4911 – Electric Services |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | ICIS-AIR source IA0000001901300130 |
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
- 7Pollutants on file
- 7Under a numeric limit
- 7With a violation of any kind
- 3With an effluent exceedance
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 measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oil & Grease | 12 | 310 | 4 | June 30, 2019 | 109% over the limit |
| pH | 8 | 206 | 2 | May 31, 2025 | |
| Solids, total suspended | 12 | 321 | 1 | July 31, 2016 | 20% over the limit |
| Chromium, total [as Cr] | 4 | 128 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 4 | 128 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 4 | 128 | 0 | ||
| Chlorination duration | 1 | 32 | 0 |
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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES IA0063941.
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 October 14, 2026.