Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIG250389

CECO-FOOTE DAM AND HYDRO PLANT, Oscoda, MI: NPDES MIG250389 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

CECO-FOOTE DAM AND HYDRO PLANT, held by Consumers Energy Company, holds NPDES permit MIG250389, which discharges to Au Sable River. EPA’s file records it issued July 11, 2022 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-FOOTE DAM AND HYDRO PLANT
Permittee as filed	Consumers Energy Company
NPDES ID	MIG250389
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	July 11, 2022
Expiration date	April 1, 2023
Issuing agency	State
Address	Oscoda, MI 48750
Receiving water	Au Sable River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	State Ditch-Au Sable River (HUC 040700070709)
NAICS	221111 – Hydroelectric Power Generation
SIC	4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MID981537830

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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	18	36
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	9	18
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	9	18

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MIG250389.

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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
April 21, 2020	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
March 21, 2020	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
February 21, 2020	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
September 24, 2018	Management Practice Violations - No Licensed/Certified Operator	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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MIG250389 for the CECO-FOOTE DAM AND HYDRO PLANT in Oscoda, MI, held by Consumers Energy Company and discharging to the Au Sable River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.