Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0081001

FORT MADISON WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Montrose, IA: NPDES IA0081001 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
2Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

FORT MADISON WATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by CITY OF FORT MADISON, holds NPDES permit IA0081001. EPA’s file records it issued February 1, 2019 and expiring January 31, 2024. 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 filed	FORT MADISON WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	CITY OF FORT MADISON
NPDES ID	IA0081001
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	February 1, 2019
Expiration date	January 31, 2024
Issuing agency	STA
Address	Montrose, IA 52639
Subwatershed	Jack Creek-Mississippi River (HUC 070801041802)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

2Pollutants on file
2Under a numeric limit
2With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	40	8	December 31, 2011	7,856% over the limit
pH	2	22	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 IA0081001.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES IA0081001.

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 IA0081001.

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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FORT MADISON WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Montrose, Iowa: Individual permit IA0081001, held by CITY OF FORT MADISON; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued February 1, 2019, term to January 31, 2024, by STA.

Solids, total suspended: 2 limits, 40 violations of any kind, 8 effluent exceedances, latest December 31, 2011, largest 7,856% over the limit.
pH: 2 limits, 22 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.

Other permits held by CITY OF FORT MADISON

FORT MADISON CITY OF STP, Fort Madison: IA0027219, issued October 1, 2019

FORT MADISON WATER TREATMENT PLANT among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 8 discharge permits in the Jack Creek-Mississippi River subwatershed (HUC 070801041802), IA0081001 among them. Its county holds 19, 5 of them major permits; IA0081001 is a minor permit.

Other permits in the Jack Creek-Mississippi River subwatershed (HUC 070801041802)

CENTRAL LEE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, Donnellson: IA0069426, minor permit, permit term to June 30, 2025
CONAGRA FOODS PACKAGED FOODS, LLC, Fort Madison: IA0000833, minor permit, permit term to August 31, 2026
HISTORIC NAUVOO VISITORS CENTER, Nauvoo: ILR10ZDXA, minor permit, permit term to August 31, 2028
MONTROSE CITY OF STP, Montrose: IA0030848, minor permit, permit term to December 31, 2025
NAUVOO STP, CITY OF, Nauvoo: IL0023531, minor permit, discharging to MISSISSIPPI RIVER, permit term to March 31, 2022
NAUVOO WTP, Nauvoo: ILG640242, minor permit, discharging to MISSISSIPPI RIVER, permit term to April 30, 2017
SINCLAIR TRANSPORTATION CO. -BLANKET PERMIT-IOWA, Montrose: IA0076538, minor permit, permit term to September 30, 2015

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IA0081001 for the Fort Madison Water Treatment Plant in Montrose, IA, held by the City of Fort Madison, with the permit status listed as administratively continued. The page reports 2 pollutants on file, 2 under a numeric limit, 2 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.