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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0037621

CIVIC OPERA BUILDING, Chicago, IL: NPDES IL0037621 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CIVIC OPERA BUILDING, held by SL CIVIC WACKER LLC, holds NPDES permit IL0037621, which discharges to South Branch Chicago River. EPA’s file records it issued July 6, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedCIVIC OPERA BUILDING
Permittee as filedSL CIVIC WACKER LLC
NPDES IDIL0037621
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 6, 2012
Expiration dateJune 30, 2017
AddressChicago, IL 60606
Receiving waterSOUTH BRANCH CHICAGO RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSouth Branch Chicago River-Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (HUC 071200030107)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ILD984791509

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH4533August 31, 2014
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant41400
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit2700

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES IL0037621.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IL0037621 for CIVIC OPERA BUILDING in Chicago, IL, held by SL CIVIC WACKER LLC, which discharges to the South Branch Chicago River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, and the permit was issued July 6, 2012 with an expiration date of June 30, 2017.