Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIG250178

CECO-HODENPYL DAM AND HYDRO PLANT, Mesick, MI: NPDES MIG250178 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CECO-HODENPYL DAM AND HYDRO PLANT, held by Consumers Energy, holds NPDES permit MIG250178, which discharges to Manistee River. EPA’s file records it issued February 11, 2020 and expiring April 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 filed	CECO-HODENPYL DAM AND HYDRO PLANT
Permittee as filed	Consumers Energy
NPDES ID	MIG250178
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	February 11, 2020
Expiration date	April 1, 2023
Issuing agency	State
Address	Mesick, MI 49668
Receiving water	Manistee River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Hodenpyl Dam Pond-Manistee River (HUC 040601030306)
NAICS	221111 – Hydroelectric Power Generation
SIC	4911 – Electric Services

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

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	7
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	3
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	2	1

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MIG250178.

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 27, 2024	Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid Permit	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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MIG250178 for CECO-HODENPYL DAM AND HYDRO PLANT in Mesick, MI, held by Consumers Energy, which discharges to the Manistee River within the Hodenpyl Dam Pond-Manistee River subwatershed (HUC 040601030306). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class of 3, zero pollutants under a numeric limit, and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it was issued February 11, 2020 with an expiration date of April 1, 2023.