Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0004120
AMERENENERGY MEDINA COGEN LLC, Hutsonville, IL: NPDES IL0004120 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 27Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
AMERENENERGY MEDINA COGEN LLC holds NPDES permit IL0004120, which discharges to Wabash River. EPA’s file records it issued February 13, 2015 and expiring February 29, 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 filed | AMERENENERGY MEDINA COGEN LLC |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | AMERENENERGY MEDINA COGEN LLC |
| NPDES ID | IL0004120 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | February 13, 2015 |
| Expiration date | February 29, 2020 |
| Address | Hutsonville, IL 62433 |
| Receiving water | WABASH RIVER |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | North Fork Raccoon Creek (HUC 051201111301) |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler ILD000672972 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 31Pollutants on file
- 27Under a numeric limit
- 31With a violation of any kind
- 2With 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 | 44 | 24 | July 31, 2024 | 292% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 7 | 3 | February 28, 2014 | |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 0 | 20 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 6 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total [as Fe] | 6 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total [as Ni] | 7 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 7 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Boron, total [as B] | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Chloride [as Cl] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate, total [as SO4] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Fluoride, total [as F] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Barium, total [as Ba] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total [as Cd] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total [as Cr] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Iron, dissolved [as Fe] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Manganese, total [as Mn] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Silver, total [as Ag] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total [as Se] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Phenolics, total recoverable | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, free [amenable to chlorination] | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, weak acid, dissociable | 6 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 0 | 1 | 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 IL0004120.
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.