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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MNG585018

FREEBORN WWTP, Freeborn, MN: NPDES MNG585018 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FREEBORN WWTP, held by Freeborn city of, holds NPDES permit MNG585018. EPA’s file records it issued March 1, 2021 and expiring November 30, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedFREEBORN WWTP
Permittee as filedFreeborn city of
NPDES IDMNG585018
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 1, 2021
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2023
Issuing agencySTA
AddressFreeborn, MN 56032
SubwatershedCobb Creek (HUC 070200110301)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

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 suspended577April 30, 202578% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]544April 30, 2025280% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant900
Phosphorus, total [as P]400
pH300
Nitrogen, total [as N]200
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]200
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]200
Precipitation, total defined period/in100
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
Coliform, fecal MPN + membrane ftl 44.5 C100

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 MNG585018.

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 October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MNG585018 for the FREEBORN WWTP in Freeborn, MN, held by Freeborn city of, which is administratively continued and sits in the Cobb Creek subwatershed (HUC 070200110301). The facts list 11 pollutants on file, with 11 under a numeric limit and 2 with an effluent exceedance.