Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0078964

LEFEVRE-MAGER-TUCKER MINE, Mounds, IL: NPDES IL0078964 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LEFEVRE-MAGER-TUCKER MINE, held by MOUNDS PRODUCTION COMPANY, holds NPDES permit IL0078964, which discharges to Unnamed Trib To Hodges Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 24, 2013 and expiring April 30, 2018. 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 filed	LEFEVRE-MAGER-TUCKER MINE
Permittee as filed	MOUNDS PRODUCTION COMPANY
NPDES ID	IL0078964
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	May 24, 2013
Expiration date	April 30, 2018
Address	Mounds, IL 62964
Receiving water	UNNAMED TRIB TO HODGES CREEK
Subwatershed	Hess Bayou-Ohio River (HUC 051402060703)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
4With a violation of any kind
1With 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	2	24	2	August 31, 2023	231% over the limit
pH	2	22	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	11	0
Offensive Conditions	1	11	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 IL0078964.

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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IL0078964 for the LEFEVRE-MAGER-TUCKER MINE in Mounds, IL, held by MOUNDS PRODUCTION COMPANY and discharging to UNNAMED TRIB TO HODGES CREEK in the Hess Bayou-Ohio River subwatershed (HUC 051402060703). The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, with 4 pollutants on file, 4 under a numeric limit, 4 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.