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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0078441

JOHN W. PRAY WATER FACILITY, Fort Dodge, IA: NPDES IA0078441 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

JOHN W. PRAY WATER FACILITY, held by CITY OF FORT DODGE, holds NPDES permit IA0078441. EPA’s file records it issued May 1, 2015 and expiring April 30, 2020. 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 filedJOHN W. PRAY WATER FACILITY
Permittee as filedCITY OF FORT DODGE
NPDES IDIA0078441
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
IssuedMay 1, 2015
Expiration dateApril 30, 2020
Issuing agencySTA
AddressFort Dodge, IA 50501
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedGypsum Creek-Des Moines River (HUC 071000040604)

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
Solids, total suspended41520
Iron, total [as Fe]41520
Chlorine, total residual41520
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]41280
pH260

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES IA0078441.

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 IA0078441.

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 NPDES permit IA0078441 for the John W. Pray Water Facility in Fort Dodge, IA, held by the City of Fort Dodge, which is administratively continued and lists a Minor discharger class 5. The page reports 5 pollutants on file, 5 under a numeric limit, 0 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance, within the Gypsum Creek-Des Moines River subwatershed (HUC 071000040604).