Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0061859

NEW PALESTINE NORTH UTILITY WWTP, New Palestine, IN: NPDES IN0061859 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

NEW PALESTINE NORTH UTILITY WWTP holds NPDES permit IN0061859, which discharges to Or/E Fk White R/Sugar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 24, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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	NEW PALESTINE NORTH UTILITY WWTP
Permittee as filed	NEW PALESTINE NORTH UTILITY WWTP
NPDES ID	IN0061859
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 24, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	New Palestine, IN 46163
Receiving water	OR/E FK WHITE R/SUGAR CREEK

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
3With 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]	4	32	20	May 31, 2026	245% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	22	10	January 31, 2026	152% over the limit
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]	3	6	2	June 30, 2023	561% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	12	0
pH	2	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	6	0
Flow, total	1	3	0
Number of Events	2	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 IN0061859.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES IN0061859.

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 IN0061859.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IN0061859 for NEW PALESTINE NORTH UTILITY WWTP in New Palestine, IN, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 8 pollutants on file, 8 under a numeric limit, and 8 with a violation of any kind.