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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0024953

SPRINGFIELD, Springfield, MN: NPDES MN0024953 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SPRINGFIELD holds NPDES permit MN0024953, which discharges to Cottonwood R. EPA’s file records it issued August 3, 2007 and expiring July 31, 2012. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedSPRINGFIELD
Permittee as filedSPRINGFIELD
NPDES IDMN0024953
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
IssuedAugust 3, 2007
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2012
AddressSpringfield, MN 56087
Receiving waterCOTTONWOOD R
SubwatershedCity of Springfield-Cottonwood River (HUC 070200080605)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
pH022August 31, 1989
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]0101July 31, 198822% over the limit
Solids, total suspended090
Chlorine, total residual040
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant010

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 MN0024953.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MN0024953 for SPRINGFIELD, Springfield, MN, which discharges to the COTTONWOOD R in the City of Springfield-Cottonwood River subwatershed (HUC 070200080605). The permit is administratively continued, is classed as a minor discharger, and is a publicly owned treatment works. The file lists 5 pollutants on file, 2 of which have an effluent exceedance, and 5 with a violation of any kind.