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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ID0028533

GARDEN CREEK FARMS, Challis, ID: NPDES ID0028533 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GARDEN CREEK FARMS holds NPDES permit ID0028533, which discharges to Warm Springs Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 28, 2018 and expiring December 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 filedGARDEN CREEK FARMS
Permittee as filedGARDEN CREEK FARMS
NPDES IDID0028533
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 28, 2018
Expiration dateDecember 30, 2023
Issuing agencyREGION 10, U.S. EPA
AddressChallis, ID 83226
Receiving waterWARM SPRINGS CREEK
SubwatershedMiddle Warm Spring Creek (HUC 170602011503)
NAICS112511 – Finfish Farming and Fish Hatcheries
SIC0921 – Fish Hatcheries And Preserves

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

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 suspended161050
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant4880
Phosphorus, total [as P]12840
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual2440

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ID0028533.

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 ID0028533.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ID0028533 for GARDEN CREEK FARMS in Challis, ID, which discharges to WARM SPRINGS CREEK and is administratively continued as a minor discharger, class 4. The facts list 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued November 28, 2018 and expiring December 30, 2023.