Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0071919

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Iowa City, IA: NPDES IA0071919 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA WATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, holds NPDES permit IA0071919. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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 IOWA WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
NPDES ID	IA0071919
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	July 1, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Issuing agency	STA
Address	Iowa City, IA 52242
Subwatershed	Ralston Creek-Iowa River (HUC 070802090703)
NAICS	611310 – Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
SIC	8221 – Colleges And Universities

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

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Chlorine, total residual	8	77	5	July 31, 2026	421% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	8	0
pH	2	4	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 IA0071919.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES IA0071919.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES IA0071919.

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IA0071919 for the University of Iowa Water Treatment Plant in Iowa City, IA, held by The University of Iowa. The permit is administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class of 3, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance. The figures are as EPA's permit file stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.