Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0044377

MDOT-HIGH FOREST REST AREA, Mower County, MN: NPDES MN0044377 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MDOT-HIGH FOREST REST AREA holds NPDES permit MN0044377, which discharges to Root R N Br Via Carey Cr. EPA’s file records it issued February 27, 2009 and expiring January 31, 2014. 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 filed	MDOT-HIGH FOREST REST AREA
Permittee as filed	MDOT-HIGH FOREST REST AREA
NPDES ID	MN0044377
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	February 27, 2009
Expiration date	January 31, 2014
Address	Mower County, MN 55976
Receiving water	ROOT R N BR VIA CAREY CR
Subwatershed	Carey Creek (HUC 070400080105)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

6Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
2With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	17	1	September 30, 1996
Solids, total suspended	17	1	September 30, 1996	147% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	29	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	18	0
Coliform, fecal MPN + membrane ftl 44.5 C	10	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	8	0

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 MN0044377.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MN0044377 for MDOT-HIGH FOREST REST AREA in Mower County, MN, which discharges to Root R N Br Via Carey Cr within the Carey Creek subwatershed (HUC 070400080105). The page lists the permit as Effective, a minor discharger, with its issue and expiration dates as recorded in EPA's file, and it reports 6 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit, 6 with a violation of any kind, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.