Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ILL022161

WATSEKA STP, CITY OF, Watseka, IL: NPDES ILL022161 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WATSEKA STP, CITY OF, held by WATSEKA, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit ILL022161. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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	WATSEKA STP, CITY OF
Permittee as filed	WATSEKA, CITY OF
NPDES ID	ILL022161
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Associated permit record
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Biosolids
Issued	January 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Watseka, IL 60970
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Eastburo Hollow-Iroquois River (HUC 071200021001)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Pollutant table from 503.13	0	2	0
Level of pathogen requirements achieved	0	2	0
Description of pathogen option used	0	2	0
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method	0	1	0
Annual amt of sludge incinerated	0	1	0
Annual sludge production, total	0	1	0
Annual amount of sludge land applied	0	1	0
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit	0	1	0
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill	0	1	0
Annual amt sludge transported interstate	0	1	0
Vector attraction reduction alternative used	0	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ILL022161.

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 ILL022161.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

WATSEKA STP, CITY OF is among the 2 biosolids permits on EPA's NPDES register in Iroquois County, counting this permit. The Eastburo Hollow-Iroquois River subwatershed (HUC 071200021001) holds 6 NPDES permits, counting this permit. It has no pollutant under a numeric limit and no pollutant with an effluent exceedance.