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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0073181

TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS-STP, Colfax, IA: NPDES IA0073181 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS-STP, held by TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS, holds NPDES permit IA0073181. EPA’s file records it issued November 15, 2001 and expiring November 16, 2006. 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 filedTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS-STP
Permittee as filedTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS
NPDES IDIA0073181
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
IssuedNovember 15, 2001
Expiration dateNovember 16, 2006
Issuing agencySTA
AddressColfax, IA 50054
SubwatershedSugar Creek-South Skunk River (HUC 070801050908)

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

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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]4677March 31, 2020140% over the limit
pH2357April 30, 2009
Solids, total suspended4655March 31, 2020150% over the limit
Solids, settleable300
Sludge settleability 30 minute300
Mixed liquor300

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 IA0073181.

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 NPDES discharge permit IA0073181 for TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS-STP in Colfax, IA, held by TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS, with its permit status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The page lists 6 pollutants on file, 3 of which are under a numeric limit and 3 of which have an effluent exceedance.