Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0060755

NORTH WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Decatur, IL: NPDES IL0060755 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORTH WATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY, holds NPDES permit IL0060755, which discharges to Lake Decatur. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2019 and expiring April 30, 2024. 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	NORTH WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY
NPDES ID	IL0060755
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	April 30, 2019
Expiration date	April 30, 2024
Address	Decatur, IL 62521
Receiving water	LAKE DECATUR
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	City of Decatur-Lake Decatur (HUC 071300060405)
SIC	4941 – Water Supply
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ILD984918516

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

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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	10	16	14	April 30, 2011	440% over the limit
pH	10	15	12	October 31, 2025
Chlorine, total residual	5	5	4	June 30, 2010	100% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	0	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 IL0060755.

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 discharge permit IL0060755 for the North Water Treatment Plant in Decatur, IL, held by Archer Daniels Midland Company, which discharges to Lake Decatur. The page lists the permit as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class 4, with 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.