Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INRA14079

BAUER FARM, Portage, IN: NPDES INRA14079 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BAUER FARM, held by Steven Straka, holds NPDES permit INRA14079. EPA’s file records it issued June 24, 2024 and expiring June 23, 2029. 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.

What the register holds for BAUER FARM: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Portage, Indiana. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES INRA14079.

Identity

Facility as filed	BAUER FARM
Permittee as filed	Steven Straka
NPDES ID	INRA14079
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Construction stormwater
Issued	June 24, 2024
Expiration date	June 23, 2029
Issuing agency	State
Address	Portage, IN 46385
Subwatershed	Willow Creek-Burns Ditch (HUC 040400010509)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES INRA14079.

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 INRA14079.

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 September 15, 2026.

The BAUER FARM storm water construction permit (NPDES ID INRA14079), held by Steven Straka in Portage, Indiana, is one of 53 such permits on EPA's NPDES register in Portage, and it sits within the Willow Creek-Burns Ditch subwatershed, which contains 43 NPDES permits including this one. Among the 53 Portage storm water construction permits, 0.0% have a violation on file, and this permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances.