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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0025313

ABBOTT NUTRITION, Sturgis, MI: NPDES MI0025313 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ABBOTT NUTRITION, held by Abbott Nutrition, holds NPDES permit MI0025313, which discharges to Nye Drain. EPA’s file records it issued February 28, 2018 and expiring October 1, 2021. 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 filedABBOTT NUTRITION
Permittee as filedAbbott Nutrition
NPDES IDMI0025313
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 28, 2018
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2021
Issuing agencyState
AddressSturgis, MI 49091
Receiving waterNye Drain
SubwatershedWegner Ditch-Fawn River (HUC 040500010807)
NAICS311421 – Fruit and Vegetable Canning
SIC2023 – Dry, Condensed, Evaporated Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MID005174339; ICIS-AIR source MI00000000000A6380

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
Phosphorus, total [as P]2514August 31, 20103,900% over the limit
pH2362August 31, 2010
Solids, total suspended1410
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2340
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response1200
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2190
Trichloroethylene020
Chloride [as Cl]400
Sulfate, total [as SO4]400
Solids, total dissolved400
Chlorine, total residual100

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
July 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
March 16, 2023Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
July 11, 2022WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMPST6
March 10, 2020Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MI0025313, held by Abbott Nutrition in Sturgis, MI, which discharges to Nye Drain in the Wegner Ditch-Fawn River subwatershed (HUC 040500010807). The permit is classed as a Minor Discharger and is administratively continued, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance listed.