Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0047716

STURGIS-BIG HILL ROAD LF, Sturgis, MI: NPDES MI0047716 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

STURGIS-BIG HILL ROAD LF, held by City of Sturgis, holds NPDES permit MI0047716, which discharges to Moe Drain. EPA’s file records it issued March 9, 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 filed	STURGIS-BIG HILL ROAD LF
Permittee as filed	City of Sturgis
NPDES ID	MI0047716
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 9, 2012
Expiration date	October 1, 2016
Issuing agency	State
Address	Sturgis, MI 49091
Receiving water	Moe Drain
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Clear Lake-Fawn River (HUC 040500010806)
NAICS	562212 – Solid Waste Landfill
SIC	4953 – Refuse Systems

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

8Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	27	3	August 31, 2020	64% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	14	2	June 30, 2022	11% over the limit
pH	2	27	1	December 31, 2013
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	14	160	0
1,2-cis-Dichloroethylene	0	78	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	24	0
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	1	15	0
cis-1,2-Dichloroethene	0	10	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
November 8, 2021	Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and Maintenance	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MI0047716 for the Sturgis-Big Hill Road LF in Sturgis, MI, held by City of Sturgis and discharging to Moe Drain, with the permit status listed as administratively continued. The facts list 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is classed as a minor discharger.