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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ILG580079

GRAND TOWER STP, CITY OF, Grand Tower, IL: NPDES ILG580079 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GRAND TOWER STP, CITY OF, held by GRAND TOWER, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit ILG580079, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Big Muddy River. EPA’s file records it issued June 16, 2014 and expiring June 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 filedGRAND TOWER STP, CITY OF
Permittee as filedGRAND TOWER, CITY OF
NPDES IDILG580079
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 16, 2014
Expiration dateJune 30, 2018
AddressGrand Tower, IL 62942
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB OF BIG MUDDY RIVER
SubwatershedTown Creek-Big Muddy River (HUC 071401061205)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Solids, total suspended56859June 30, 2026216% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]42921November 30, 2023108% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]198June 30, 202625% over the limit
pH262October 31, 2010
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant480
Chlorine, total residual130
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C110
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]110
Coliform, fecal general110

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 ILG580079.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit ILG580079 for GRAND TOWER STP, CITY OF in Grand Tower, IL, held by GRAND TOWER, CITY OF, with its status and dates as EPA's permit file stood when Velarion loaded it on September 15, 2026. The page lists 9 pollutants on file, 4 of them under a numeric limit and 4 with an effluent exceedance, and classes the facility as a Minor Discharger.