Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIG640231

ST JOSEPH WFP, St. Joseph, MI: NPDES MIG640231 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ST JOSEPH WFP, held by City of St. Joseph, holds NPDES permit MIG640231, which discharges to Lake Michigan. EPA’s file records it issued July 15, 2015 and expiring April 1, 2020. 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	ST JOSEPH WFP
Permittee as filed	City of St. Joseph
NPDES ID	MIG640231
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 15, 2015
Expiration date	April 1, 2020
Issuing agency	State
Address	St. Joseph, MI 49085
Receiving water	Lake Michigan
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Painterville Drain-Frontal Lake Michigan (HUC 040400010101)
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
5With 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	8	504
Chlorination duration	4	252
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	4	252
pH	2	126
Solids, total suspended	2	126

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MIG640231.

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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 21, 2023	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
October 21, 2021	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	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 NPDES permit MIG640231 for ST JOSEPH WFP in St. Joseph, MI, held by City of St. Joseph, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of 5 Minor Discharger. The listed figures are 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's recorded issue and expiration dates are July 15, 2015 and April 1, 2020.