Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0059871

MCCORMICKS WWTP, Spencer, IN: NPDES IN0059871 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

MCCORMICKS WWTP holds NPDES permit IN0059871, which discharges to Or/W Fk White/Elliston C/Lake/Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued August 14, 2007 and expiring August 31, 2012. 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 filed	MCCORMICKS WWTP
Permittee as filed	MCCORMICKS WWTP
NPDES ID	IN0059871
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 14, 2007
Expiration date	August 31, 2012
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Spencer, IN 47460
Receiving water	OR/W FK WHITE/ELLISTON C/LAKE/DITCH
Subwatershed	Fall Creek-White River (HUC 051202020203)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
7With 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	137	109	January 31, 2011	1,936% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	133	105	May 31, 2011	2,733% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	102	66	September 30, 2000	2,333% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	42	34	September 30, 2010	2,690% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	32	21	September 30, 2000	100% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	0	21	19	September 30, 2000	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	26	6	January 31, 2000
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	21	0
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]	2	10	0
Flow, wastewater by-passing trtmnt plant	0	6	0
Flow, total	1	5	0
Bypass valve	0	1	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 IN0059871.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES IN0059871.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES IN0059871.

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 discharge permit NPDES IN0059871 for MCCORMICKS WWTP in Spencer, IN, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger, with the receiving water listed as OR/W FK WHITE/ELLISTON C/LAKE/DITCH. The page lists 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 12 pollutants on file.