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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ILG840005

MILL CREEK MINING INC, Monmouth, IL: NPDES ILG840005 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MILL CREEK MINING INC, held by COOTS MATERIALS CO, holds NPDES permit ILG840005, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Cedar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 20, 2012 and expiring February 28, 2017. 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 filedMILL CREEK MINING INC
Permittee as filedCOOTS MATERIALS CO
NPDES IDILG840005
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
IssuedJune 20, 2012
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2017
AddressMonmouth, IL 61426
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB OF CEDAR CREEK
SubwatershedTalbot Creek-Cedar Creek (HUC 070801040802)
SIC1422 – Crushed And Broken Limestone

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
Solids, total suspended64340
pH64330
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant32270
Offensive Conditions31670

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ILG840005.

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 ILG840005.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ILG840005, held by COOTS MATERIALS CO for MILL CREEK MINING INC in Monmouth, IL, which discharges to UNNAMED TRIB OF CEDAR CREEK in the Talbot Creek-Cedar Creek subwatershed (HUC 070801040802). The permit is listed as a Minor Discharger class 4 permit with status "Administratively continued," with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and EPA's file records it as issued June 20, 2012 and expiring February 28, 2017.