Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0032310

FREEBURG WEST STP, VILLAGE OF, Freeburg, IL: NPDES IL0032310 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FREEBURG WEST STP, VILLAGE OF, held by FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF, holds NPDES permit IL0032310, which discharges to Kinney Branch Of Richland Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 7, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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 WEST STP, VILLAGE OF
Permittee as filed	FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF
NPDES ID	IL0032310
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 7, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Address	Freeburg, IL 62243
Receiving water	KINNEY BRANCH OF RICHLAND CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Kinney Branch-Richland Creek (HUC 071402040606)
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

11Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
9With 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]	25	303	301	July 31, 2023	643% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	78	42	January 31, 2023	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	120	41	June 30, 2022	463% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	114	35	June 30, 2022	327% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	105	21	January 31, 2022	300% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	3	77	19	September 30, 2025	277% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	8	8	8	June 30, 2022	38% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	6	6	March 31, 2022	60% over the limit
pH	4	86	2	March 31, 2022
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	82	0
Flow, total	2	13	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

3Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
September 2, 2025	Dry-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO discharge to waters of the U.S. that may endanger health or the environment	ST6
April 4, 2025	Wet-weather SSO 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 permit IL0032310, held by FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF for FREEBURG WEST STP, VILLAGE OF in Freeburg, IL, which discharges to Kinney Branch Of Richland Creek and carries a permit status of Administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class. The file lists 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 11 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with dates of issuance September 7, 2018 and expiration August 31, 2023.