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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0060195

CALEDONIA WWTP, Caledonia, MI: NPDES MI0060195 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CALEDONIA WWTP, held by Village of Caledonia, holds NPDES permit MI0060195, which discharges to Emmons Lake Drain. EPA’s file records it issued January 30, 2018 and expiring October 1, 2020. 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 filedCALEDONIA WWTP
Permittee as filedVillage of Caledonia
NPDES IDMI0060195
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 30, 2018
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2020
Issuing agencyState
AddressCaledonia, MI 49316
Receiving waterEmmons Lake Drain
SubwatershedMcCords Creek-Thornapple River (HUC 040500070407)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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]855September 30, 2025162% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]1233July 31, 2022340% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]1611August 31, 202284% over the limit
Solids, total suspended800
Sodium, total [as Na]400
Chloride [as Cl]400
Manganese, total [as Mn]400
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]300
Solids, total300
Arsenic, dry weight300
Selenium, dry weight300
Copper, dry weight300
Cadmium, dry weight300
Nitrogen, total Kjeldahl300
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]300
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]300
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]300
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]300
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]300
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]300
Potassium, sludge, total, dry weight [as K]300
Phosphorus, sludge, total, dry weight [as P]300
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Coliform, fecal general200
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal200
Solids, suspended percent removal200

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
February 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
December 31, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2022Reporting 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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MI0060195 for CALEDONIA WWTP in Caledonia, MI, held by the Village of Caledonia and discharging to Emmons Lake Drain within the McCords Creek-Thornapple River watershed (HUC 040500070407). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 27 pollutants on file, 3 of them under a numeric limit and 3 with an effluent exceedance.