Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0020753

FREEBURG EAST STP, VILLAGE OF, Freeburg, IL: NPDES IL0020753 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FREEBURG EAST STP, VILLAGE OF, held by FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF, holds NPDES permit IL0020753, which discharges to Lemen Creek To Silver Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 27, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022. 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 filed	FREEBURG EAST STP, VILLAGE OF
Permittee as filed	FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF
NPDES ID	IL0020753
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 27, 2017
Expiration date	September 30, 2022
Address	Freeburg, IL 62243
Receiving water	LEMEN CREEK TO SILVER CREEK
Subwatershed	Jacks Run-Silver Creek (HUC 071402040512)
Program components on file	Biosolids, POTW, Pretreatment
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
4With 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	5	252	81	February 29, 2020	202% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	177	1	January 31, 1999	8% over the limit
pH	2	87	1	August 31, 2025
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	17	1	August 31, 2005	7% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	178	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	111	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	43	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	3	0
Coliform, fecal general	1	0	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

5Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
April 5, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit IL0020753, held by FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF for the FREEBURG EAST STP, VILLAGE OF in Freeburg, IL, which discharges to Lemen Creek To Silver Creek within the Jacks Run-Silver Creek subwatershed (HUC 071402040512). The permit is listed as administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class, with 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.