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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KS0200002

POWHATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT, Powhattan, KS: NPDES KS0200002 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

POWHATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT, held by POWATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, holds NPDES permit KS0200002, which discharges to Grasshopper Cr (1027010320). EPA’s file records it issued June 19, 2023 and expiring September 30, 2028. 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 filedPOWHATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT
Permittee as filedPOWATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
NPDES IDKS0200002
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 19, 2023
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2028
Issuing agencyKansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
AddressPowhattan, KS 66527
Receiving waterGrasshopper Cr (1027010320)
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHeadwaters Grasshopper Creek (HUC 102701030202)
NAICS493130 – Farm Product Warehousing and Storage
SIC0139 – Field Crops, Except Cash Grains

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

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
Carbon tetrachloride320
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]120
Chloroform210
Ethylene dibromide210
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES KS0200002.

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 KS0200002.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES KS0200002 for POWHATTAN USDA GROUNDWATER TREATMENT in Powhattan, KS, a minor discharger whose permit status is listed as Effective and which discharges to Grasshopper Cr (1027010320). The facts list 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued June 19, 2023 and set to expire September 30, 2028.