Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0026522

FRANKLIN GROVE STP, VILLAGE OF, Franklin Grove, IL: NPDES IL0026522 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FRANKLIN GROVE STP, VILLAGE OF, held by FRANKLIN GROVE, VILLAGE OF, holds NPDES permit IL0026522, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Franklin Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 3, 2017 and expiring March 31, 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	FRANKLIN GROVE STP, VILLAGE OF
Permittee as filed	FRANKLIN GROVE, VILLAGE OF
NPDES ID	IL0026522
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	March 3, 2017
Expiration date	March 31, 2022
Address	Franklin Grove, IL 61031
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIB OF FRANKLIN CREEK
Subwatershed	Franklin Creek (HUC 070900050602)
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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
8With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	237	141	May 31, 2026	307% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	19	288	86	June 30, 2021	467% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	3	139	78	June 30, 2021	99,900% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	250	67	June 30, 2025	2,208% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	101	59	July 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	8	130	9	July 31, 2022	100% over the limit
pH	4	104	2	September 30, 2020
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	93	2	March 31, 2020	45% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	92	0
Flow, total	2	48	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
May 7, 2026	Dry-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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This public-records page covers NPDES discharge permit IL0026522, held by FRANKLIN GROVE, VILLAGE OF for the FRANKLIN GROVE STP, VILLAGE OF facility in Franklin Grove, IL, with its status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The page lists 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it notes the permit's issue date of March 3, 2017 and expiration date of March 31, 2022 as they stood when the record was loaded.