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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0050041

NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO, Carlton, MN: NPDES MN0050041 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO, held by NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, holds NPDES permit MN0050041, which discharges to Surface Wtr. EPA’s file records it issued February 1, 2011 and expiring January 31, 2016. 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.

What the register holds for NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Carlton, Minnesota, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MN0050041.

Identity

Facility as filedNORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO
Permittee as filedNORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY
NPDES IDMN0050041
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 1, 2011
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2016
Issuing agencyMPCA
AddressCarlton, MN 55718
Receiving waterSURFACE WTR
SubwatershedOtter Creek (HUC 040102011504)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MN0050041.

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 MN0050041.

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

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What this page shows

The NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO permit in Carlton, Minnesota is one of 7 individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in Carlton County, this one included. Of all 6 individual permits in Carlton County (this one included), 66.7% carry an earlier issue date than this permit's February 1, 2011 issuance. Among the 5 NPDES permits in the Otter Creek subwatershed, this one included, the permit records no pollutant under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedance.