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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIS111997

CHALLENGE MFG-FRUITRIDGE, Grand Rapids, MI: NPDES MIS111997 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHALLENGE MFG-FRUITRIDGE, held by Challenge Manufacturing, holds NPDES permit MIS111997, which discharges to Little Sand Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 28, 2019 and expiring April 1, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for CHALLENGE MFG-FRUITRIDGE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Grand Rapids, Michigan, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MIS111997.

Identity

Facility as filedCHALLENGE MFG-FRUITRIDGE
Permittee as filedChallenge Manufacturing
NPDES IDMIS111997
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
IssuedJune 28, 2019
Expiration dateApril 1, 2021
Issuing agencyState
AddressGrand Rapids, MI 49544
Receiving waterLittle Sand Creek
SubwatershedEast Fork (HUC 040500060701)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MIK379035926

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MIS111997.

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 MIS111997.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The CHALLENGE MFG-FRUITRIDGE permit, a general permit coverage in Kent County, Michigan, is one of 81 such coverages in the county, and 16.0% of them were issued earlier than this one. Among the 81 Kent County general permit coverages, 23.5% carry a violation on file, whereas this permit has no effluent exceedances and no pollutants under a numeric limit. Within the East Fork subwatershed, this permit is one of 9 NPDES permits.