Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0027855

CAPRON WWTP, VILLAGE OF, Capron, IL: NPDES IL0027855 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

CAPRON WWTP, VILLAGE OF, held by CAPRON, VILLAGE OF, holds NPDES permit IL0027855, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary Of Beaver Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 2, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2026. 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	CAPRON WWTP, VILLAGE OF
Permittee as filed	CAPRON, VILLAGE OF
NPDES ID	IL0027855
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	June 2, 2021
Expiration date	June 30, 2026
Address	Capron, IL 61012
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF BEAVER CREEK
Subwatershed	Dawson Lake-North Fork Salt Creek (HUC 071300090202)
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
9With 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	80	64	January 31, 2026	169% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	18	69	48	May 31, 2026	2,113% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	30	14	April 30, 2026	83% over the limit
pH	2	11	5	October 31, 2022
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	15	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	6	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	4	0
Coliform, fecal general	1	3	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	2	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 IL0027855.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit IL0027855 for the CAPRON WWTP, VILLAGE OF in Capron, IL, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, under the program components Biosolids, POTW and Pretreatment. The permit covers the Unnamed Tributary Of Beaver Creek within the subwatershed HUC 071300090202.