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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0072150

NORTHERN HILLS FARMS, Hills, MN: NPDES MN0072150 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NORTHERN HILLS FARMS, held by Northern Hills Farms, LTD, holds NPDES permit MN0072150. EPA’s file records it issued September 4, 2025 and expiring September 3, 2030. 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 HILLS FARMS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Hills, Minnesota. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MN0072150.

Identity

Facility as filedNORTHERN HILLS FARMS
Permittee as filedNorthern Hills Farms, LTD
NPDES IDMN0072150
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConcentrated animal feeding operations
IssuedSeptember 4, 2025
Expiration dateSeptember 3, 2030
Issuing agencySTA
AddressHills, MN 56138
SubwatershedUpper Mud Creek (HUC 101702040401)

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 MN0072150.

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 MN0072150.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

Northern Hills Farms, LTD's permit MN0072150 is one of 14 CAFO permits on EPA's NPDES register in Rock County, and 0.0% of those 14 CAFO permits in Rock County have a violation on file. Among those same 14 CAFO permits in Rock County, 57.1% carry an earlier issue date than this one, which was issued September 4, 2025. The permit is one of 4 NPDES permits in the Upper Mud Creek subwatershed, and it records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.