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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ILL045144

FOX LAKE-TALL OAKS STP, Fox Lake, IL: NPDES ILL045144 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FOX LAKE-TALL OAKS STP, held by TALL OAKS STP, holds NPDES permit ILL045144. 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 (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedFOX LAKE-TALL OAKS STP
Permittee as filedTALL OAKS STP
NPDES IDILL045144
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressFox Lake, IL 60020
SubwatershedNippersink Lake-Fox River (HUC 071200061009)

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
Arsenic, dry weight060
Selenium, dry weight060
Copper, dry weight060
Cadmium, dry weight060
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]060
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]060
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]060
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]060
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]040
Pollutant table from 503.13020
Level of pathogen requirements achieved020
Description of pathogen option used020
Vector attraction reduction alternative used020
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method010
Annual amt of sludge incinerated010
Annual sludge production, total010
Annual amount of sludge land applied010
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit010
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill010
Annual amt sludge transported interstate010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ILL045144.

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 ILL045144.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The FOX LAKE-TALL OAKS STP permit, NPDES ID ILL045144, is one of 19 biosolids permits in Lake County, and it is one of 7 NPDES permits in the Nippersink Lake-Fox River subwatershed, this one included. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances on file, and 84.2% of the county's biosolids permits carry a violation on record while 21.1% of them were issued earlier than this one.