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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIG640289

BOXED WATER IS BETTER, Holland, MI: NPDES MIG640289 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BOXED WATER IS BETTER, held by Boxed Water Is Better, holds NPDES permit MIG640289, which discharges to County Drain No. 49. EPA’s file records it issued August 22, 2023 and expiring April 1, 2025. 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 filedBOXED WATER IS BETTER
Permittee as filedBoxed Water Is Better
NPDES IDMIG640289
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedAugust 22, 2023
Expiration dateApril 1, 2025
Issuing agencyState
AddressHolland, MI 49424
Receiving waterCounty Drain No. 49
SubwatershedLower Macatawa River (HUC 040500020406)
NAICS312112 – Bottled Water Manufacturing
SIC2086 – Bottled And Canned Soft Drinks

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
pH200
Solids, total suspended200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Chloride [as Cl]100
Sulfate, total [as SO4]100
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MIG640289.

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
July 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
March 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
September 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
December 21, 2023Reporting 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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MIG640289, held by Boxed Water Is Better in Holland, MI, which discharges to County Drain No. 49 and sits in the Lower Macatawa River subwatershed (HUC 040500020406). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class 6, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and records an issue date of August 22, 2023 and an expiration date of April 1, 2025.