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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MNG490618

FRANZ ACHERMANN, Staples, MN: NPDES MNG490618 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FRANZ ACHERMANN, held by Franz Achermann, holds NPDES permit MNG490618. EPA’s file records it issued September 5, 2022 and expiring May 31, 2027. 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 FRANZ ACHERMANN: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Staples, Minnesota. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MNG490618.

Identity

Facility as filedFRANZ ACHERMANN
Permittee as filedFranz Achermann
NPDES IDMNG490618
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 5, 2022
Expiration dateMay 31, 2027
Issuing agencySTA
AddressStaples, MN 56479
SubwatershedFarnham Creek (HUC 070101060808)

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 MNG490618.

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 MNG490618.

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

FRANZ ACHERMANN (NPDES ID MNG490618) is the only NPDES permit in the Farnham Creek subwatershed, counting this one, and it sits among 8 general permit coverages on the register in Cass County. Of those 8 Cass County coverages, 12.5% have a violation on file, and 25.0% of them were issued earlier than this permit's September 5, 2022 date. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.