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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIS111813

SAULT STE MARIE CARBIDE DOCK, Sault Ste Marie, MI: NPDES MIS111813 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SAULT STE MARIE CARBIDE DOCK, held by Essar Steel Algoma Incorporated, holds NPDES permit MIS111813. EPA’s file records it issued September 21, 2016 and expiring April 1, 2021. 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 filedSAULT STE MARIE CARBIDE DOCK
Permittee as filedEssar Steel Algoma Incorporated
NPDES IDMIS111813
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
IssuedSeptember 21, 2016
Expiration dateApril 1, 2021
Issuing agencyState
AddressSault Ste Marie, MI 49783
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedFrechette Creek-Frontal Saint Marys River (HUC 040700010101)
SIC3325 – Steel Foundries

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MIS111813.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MIS111813.

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 31, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES MIS111813.

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.

What this page shows

SAULT STE MARIE CARBIDE DOCK is among 2 general permit coverages on EPA's NPDES register in Sault Ste Marie. The Frechette Creek-Frontal Saint Marys River subwatershed lists this permit among 7 NPDES permits.