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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MNG490026

NORTHERN IMPROVEMENT CO - BENEDICT PIT, Sabin, MN: NPDES MNG490026 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NORTHERN IMPROVEMENT CO - BENEDICT PIT, held by Northern Improvement Co, holds NPDES permit MNG490026. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2022. 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 filedNORTHERN IMPROVEMENT CO - BENEDICT PIT
Permittee as filedNorthern Improvement Co
NPDES IDMNG490026
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 1, 2018
Expiration dateMay 31, 2022
Issuing agencySTA
AddressSabin, MN 56580
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower South Branch Buffalo River (HUC 090201060605)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)ICIS-AIR source MN0000002702700065

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
Solids, total suspended330

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MNG490026.

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 MNG490026.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit MNG490026 for NORTHERN IMPROVEMENT CO - BENEDICT PIT in Sabin, MN, held by Northern Improvement Co, which EPA's file lists as issued April 1, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2022, with status administratively continued. The page reports a Minor discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it cites subwatershed Lower South Branch Buffalo River (HUC 090201060605).