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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0022764

BELLECHESTER WWTP, Bellechester, MN: NPDES MN0022764 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BELLECHESTER WWTP, held by BELLECHESTER, holds NPDES permit MN0022764, which discharges to Zumbro R Via Cold Cr. EPA’s file records it issued July 25, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017. 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 filedBELLECHESTER WWTP
Permittee as filedBELLECHESTER
NPDES IDMN0022764
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 25, 2012
Expiration dateJune 30, 2017
AddressBellechester, MN 55027
Receiving waterZUMBRO R VIA COLD CR
SubwatershedCold Creek (HUC 070400040503)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

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
Coliform, fecal MPN + membrane ftl 44.5 C0120
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant080
Solids, total suspended060
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]060
pH020
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]010
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MN0022764.

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 MN0022764.

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.

What this page shows

The BELLECHESTER WWTP, a Bellechester POTW permit in Wabasha County, is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Cold Creek subwatershed (HUC 070400040503), this one included. It also ranks among 8 POTW permits on EPA's NPDES register in Wabasha County, this one included, of which 37.5% carry an earlier issue date than this permit. Of those 8 POTW permits, 87.5% have a violation on file, while this permit has none of the pollutants with a numeric limit or effluent exceedance recorded against it.