Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0038008

BERNARD AND TREGASKISS, Beecher, IL: NPDES IL0038008 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BERNARD AND TREGASKISS, held by BERNARD WELDING, holds NPDES permit IL0038008, which discharges to Trim Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 30, 2011 and expiring October 31, 2016. 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	BERNARD AND TREGASKISS
Permittee as filed	BERNARD WELDING
NPDES ID	IL0038008
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 30, 2011
Expiration date	October 31, 2016
Address	Beecher, IL 60401
Receiving water	TRIM CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Trim Creek (HUC 071200011402)
SIC	3548 – Welding Apparatus
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD005114285

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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]	12	102	16	May 31, 2019	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	92	12	May 31, 2019	117% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	49	9	July 31, 2014	99,999% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	97	5	March 31, 2017	40% over the limit
pH	2	43	1	September 30, 2016
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	50	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	25	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 IL0038008.

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 IL0038008, held by BERNARD WELDING for the facility listed as BERNARD AND TREGASKISS in Beecher, IL, which discharges to Trim Creek. The page lists a permit status of Administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class, 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.