Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0040754

WHEATFIELD MUNICIPAL WWTP, Wheatfield, IN: NPDES IN0040754 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WHEATFIELD MUNICIPAL WWTP holds NPDES permit IN0040754, which discharges to Kankakee R Via Hodge D Via Wolf Cr. EPA’s file records it issued May 6, 2019 and expiring August 31, 2024. 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	WHEATFIELD MUNICIPAL WWTP
Permittee as filed	WHEATFIELD MUNICIPAL WWTP
NPDES ID	IN0040754
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 6, 2019
Expiration date	August 31, 2024
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Wheatfield, IN 46392
Receiving water	KANKAKEE R VIA HODGE D VIA WOLF CR
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Headwaters Wolf Creek (HUC 071200010901)
SIC	4952 – 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

10Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	38	36	November 30, 2024	591% over the limit
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]	2	11	11	July 31, 2017	3,304% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	0	10	10	May 31, 2001	921% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	7	3	April 30, 2009	39% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	9	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	4	0
pH	2	4	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	2	0
Flow, wastewater by-passing trtmnt plant	0	2	0
Flow, total	1	0	0

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 IN0040754.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IN0040754 for WHEATFIELD MUNICIPAL WWTP in Wheatfield, IN, which discharges to KANKAKEE R VIA HODGE D VIA WOLF CR and is listed as administratively continued. The permit's status shows 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.