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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0056405

THORNTON FARMS SUBDIVISION, Dexter, MI: NPDES MI0056405 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

THORNTON FARMS SUBDIVISION, held by Thornton Farms Home Owner's Association, holds NPDES permit MI0056405, which discharges to Frey Fitzsimmons Drain. EPA’s file records it issued January 22, 2020 and expiring October 1, 2023. 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 filedTHORNTON FARMS SUBDIVISION
Permittee as filedThornton Farms Home Owner's Association
NPDES IDMI0056405
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
IssuedJanuary 22, 2020
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2023
Issuing agencyState
AddressDexter, MI 48130
Receiving waterFrey Fitzsimmons Drain
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSutton Lake-Mill Creek (HUC 040900050204)
NAICS813990 – Other Similar Organizations [except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations]
SIC8641 – Civic And Social Associations

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
Phosphorus, total [as P]1021274July 31, 2026680% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]1612231September 30, 20211,500% over the limit
Solids, total suspended812327March 31, 20235,789% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]827219May 31, 2021650% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general26517July 31, 20176,050% over the limit
pH2524April 30, 2018
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]2651August 31, 202082% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal2181February 28, 2017193% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal2181February 28, 2017101% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved41000
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2480
Solids, total330
Arsenic, dry weight330
Selenium, dry weight330
Copper, dry weight330
Cadmium, dry weight330
Nitrogen, total Kjeldahl330
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]330
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]330
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]330
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]330
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]330
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]330
Potassium, sludge, total, dry weight [as K]330
Phosphorus, sludge, total, dry weight [as P]330

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
August 22, 2019Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
August 22, 2019Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
January 21, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6

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 NPDES permit MI0056405 for THORNTON FARMS SUBDIVISION in Dexter, MI, held by Thornton Farms Home Owner's Association and discharging to Frey Fitzsimmons Drain, with a status of administratively continued. The facts list a discharger class of 25 and 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 9 had an effluent exceedance.