Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0025534

BIRMINGHAM CSO RTB, Birmingham, MI: NPDES MI0025534 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BIRMINGHAM CSO RTB, held by Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner, holds NPDES permit MI0025534, which discharges to River Rouge. EPA’s file records it issued December 9, 2016 and expiring October 1, 2021. 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	BIRMINGHAM CSO RTB
Permittee as filed	Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner
NPDES ID	MI0025534
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	December 9, 2016
Expiration date	October 1, 2021
Issuing agency	State
Address	Birmingham, MI 48009
Receiving water	River Rouge
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Headwaters River Rouge (HUC 040900040403)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Coliform, fecal general	2	53	6	June 30, 2024	99,999% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	62	1	June 30, 2021	25% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	144	0
Solids, total suspended	2	144	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	144	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	144	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	140	0
pH	2	72	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	36	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 MI0025534.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MI0025534 for BIRMINGHAM CSO RTB in Birmingham, MI, held by Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner, with a permit status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 9 as the discharger class, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.