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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0024988

STAPLES WWTP, Staples, MN: NPDES MN0024988 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

STAPLES WWTP, held by STAPLES, holds NPDES permit MN0024988, which discharges to Crow Wing R Via Hayden Cr Via Sl. EPA’s file records it issued May 23, 2012 and expiring April 30, 2017. 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 filedSTAPLES WWTP
Permittee as filedSTAPLES
NPDES IDMN0024988
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
IssuedMay 23, 2012
Expiration dateApril 30, 2017
AddressStaples, MN 56479
Receiving waterCROW WING R VIA HAYDEN CR VIA SL
SubwatershedHayden Creek-Crow Wing River (HUC 070101061101)

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
pH0102November 30, 2021
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0220
Solids, total suspended0100
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]080
Mercury, total [as Hg]030
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]020
Chlorine, total residual020
Mercury, dissolved [as Hg]020
Coliform, fecal MPN + membrane ftl 44.5 C010

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 MN0024988.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MN0024988 for the STAPLES WWTP in Staples, MN, with the permit listed as administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The facts list 9 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit, 9 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance. The HUC is 070101061101.