Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0024350

NORTH BRANCH WWTP, North Branch, MN: NPDES MN0024350 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORTH BRANCH WWTP, held by NORTH BRANCH, holds NPDES permit MN0024350, which discharges to Sunrise R N Br. EPA’s file records it issued January 3, 2013 and expiring December 31, 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 filed	NORTH BRANCH WWTP
Permittee as filed	NORTH BRANCH
NPDES ID	MN0024350
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 3, 2013
Expiration date	December 31, 2017
Address	North Branch, MN 55056
Receiving water	SUNRISE R N BR
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Middle North Branch Sunrise River (HUC 070300050302)
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MNS000122721

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

1Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
1With a violation of any kind
1With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	5	5	August 31, 2023	301% over the limit

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MN0024350.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MN0024350 for the NORTH BRANCH WWTP in North Branch, MN, held by NORTH BRANCH, which discharges to Sunrise R N Br and falls within the Middle North Branch Sunrise River subwatershed (HUC 070300050302). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.