Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0031721

WBSD WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Belgium, IL: NPDES IL0031721 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WBSD WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by WESTVILLE-BELGIUM SANITARY DISTRICT, holds NPDES permit IL0031721, which discharges to Brooks Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 13, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2025. 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	WBSD WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	WESTVILLE-BELGIUM SANITARY DISTRICT
NPDES ID	IL0031721
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	November 13, 2020
Expiration date	October 31, 2025
Address	Belgium, IL 61883
Receiving water	BROOKS CREEK
Subwatershed	Grape Creek (HUC 051201090904)
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
6With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	20	55	38	October 31, 2025	400% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	3	15	11	June 30, 2026	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	9	38	6	March 31, 2022	163% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	4	10	5	February 28, 2023	127% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	5	11	3	March 31, 2017	34% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	5	1	August 31, 2004	400% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	43	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	5	27	0
pH	8	14	0
Flow, total	3	4	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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 5, 2026	Dry-weather unanticipated prohibited bypass discharge to waters of the U.S. - endangerment	ST6
October 6, 2025	Dry-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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IL0031721 for the WBSD Wastewater Treatment Plant in Belgium, IL, operated by Westville-Belgium Sanitary District, which discharges to Brooks Creek in the Grape Creek subwatershed (HUC 051201090904). The page lists a Minor Discharger class, an administratively continued permit status, and 10 pollutants under a numeric limit, 6 of which had an effluent exceedance.