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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ILG551082

ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER - NETTLE CREEK, Morris, IL: NPDES ILG551082 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER - NETTLE CREEK, held by ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER, holds NPDES permit ILG551082, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Nettle Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2014 and expiring June 30, 2018. 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 filedILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER - NETTLE CREEK
Permittee as filedILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER
NPDES IDILG551082
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 26, 2014
Expiration dateJune 30, 2018
AddressMorris, IL 60450
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB OF NETTLE CREEK
SubwatershedNettle Creek (HUC 071200050602)
SIC4952 – 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

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
pH211November 30, 2011
Chlorine, total residual1180
Solids, total suspended500
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]400
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C100
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]100
Coliform, fecal general100

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 ILG551082.

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 NPDES permit ILG551082, held by ILLINOIS AMERICAN WATER - NETTLE CREEK in Morris, IL, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Nettle Creek within the Nettle Creek watershed (HUC 071200050602). The register lists a permit status of Minor Discharger class with 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.