Velarion Records
Follow this permit Velarion Records emails you this permit’s record, cited to the public filing, and tells you when the register changes it. Free.
We’ll email you a link to confirm. The continuous daily watch on every change is the paid alert. Unsubscribe any time.
Also free: The Pay Desk, the weekly executive pay briefing.

Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0002500

FORMER DPI - ALPENA, Alpena, MI: NPDES MI0002500 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FORMER DPI - ALPENA, held by Decorative Panels International, Incorporated, holds NPDES permit MI0002500, which discharges to Lake Huron. EPA’s file records it issued April 30, 2012 and expiring October 1, 2016. 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 filedFORMER DPI - ALPENA
Permittee as filedDecorative Panels International, Incorporated
NPDES IDMI0002500
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 30, 2012
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2016
Issuing agencyState
AddressAlpena, MI 49707
Receiving waterLake Huron
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedFall Creek-Thunder Bay River (HUC 040700060605)
NAICS321219 – Reconstituted Wood Product Manufacturing
SIC2493 – Reconstituted Wood Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MID005338157

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
Chlorination duration1169September 30, 20110% over the limit
Oil & Grease0138April 30, 20242,700% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]0177April 30, 202385% over the limit
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia0107June 30, 2024390% over the limit
Solids, total suspended0193April 30, 200861% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual2432February 28, 2023235% over the limit
pH2342February 28, 2013
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]192September 30, 200640% over the limit
Oil and grease022November 30, 2004230% over the limit
Toxicity, choice of species051November 30, 202237% over the limit
TU Static 24 Hr Acute Pimephales promelas021July 31, 202360% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2260
Cyanide [A]0200
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C0180
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]0170
Mercury, total [as Hg]0170
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit2160
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response1150
Thermal Discharge180
Copper, total [as Cu]030
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]020
Static 48 Hr Chronic Pimphales Promelas020
Zinc, total [as Zn]010
Spectrus CT 1300010
Cooling Water Intake Velocity010

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 21, 2026Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
September 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
July 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
March 21, 2024Monitoring Violations - Analysis not ConductedST6
November 21, 2022Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
July 20, 2021Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
July 20, 2021Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violationST6
July 20, 2021Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab ErrorST6
July 20, 2021Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
September 21, 2020Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
August 21, 2020Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
November 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
June 13, 2017WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMPST6

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.

Watch this permit

One permit holder, $99/month. Watch the register for one permit holder and the places and receiving waters tied to its permits. Choose “One permit holder” and enter this permit’s NPDES ID, MI0002500.

Start the watch

How often?
  • One permit holder — $99/month
  • One watershed — $2,990/year
  • One state — $4,990/year
  • The whole register — $18,000/year

How we handle your data → Privacy

EPA publishes a free Detailed Facility Report for every permit on ECHO: its compliance status quarter by quarter, its inspections, and its enforcement actions and penalties. EPA also sends free notices of new inspections and enforcement actions through ECHO Notify; enter NPDES ID MI0002500 there.

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MI0002500, held by Decorative Panels International, Incorporated for the FORMER DPI - ALPENA facility in Alpena, MI, which discharges to Lake Huron, with the permit status listed as administratively continued. The page lists 8 as the discharger class and 11 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 11 had an effluent exceedance, within the Fall Creek-Thunder Bay River subwatershed (HUC 040700060605).