Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0021717

RUSHVILLE STP, CITY OF, Rushville, IL: NPDES IL0021717 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

RUSHVILLE STP, CITY OF, held by RUSHVILLE, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit IL0021717, which discharges to Unnamed Trib To Town Branch Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 7, 2016 and expiring October 31, 2021. 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	RUSHVILLE STP, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	RUSHVILLE, CITY OF
NPDES ID	IL0021717
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	October 7, 2016
Expiration date	October 31, 2021
Address	Rushville, IL 62681
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIB TO TOWN BRANCH CREEK
Subwatershed	Town Branch-La Moine River (HUC 071300101203)
Program components on file	Biosolids, POTW
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
3With 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	120	10	March 31, 2026	300% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	89	1	December 31, 2015	29% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	41	1	July 31, 2012	2% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	90	0
pH	2	44	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	22	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	22	0
Coliform, fecal general	1	5	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
July 19, 2025	Wet-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., not permit compliant, no endangerment	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 IL0021717 for the RUSHVILLE STP, CITY OF in Rushville, IL, a minor discharger and publicly owned treatment works whose permit is administratively continued after its October 31, 2021 expiration date. The page lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's Subwatershed given as Town Branch-La Moine River (HUC 071300101203).