Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MNL049786

WESTERN LAKE SSD, Duluth, MN: NPDES MNL049786 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WESTERN LAKE SSD holds NPDES permit MNL049786. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filed	WESTERN LAKE SSD
Permittee as filed	WESTERN LAKE SSD
NPDES ID	MNL049786
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Associated permit record
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Biosolids
Issued	January 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Duluth, MN 55806
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Saint Louis River (HUC 040102011604)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MND071359319; ICIS-AIR source MN0000002713700112

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MNL049786.

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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 1, 2019	PR: Biosolids: Other Management Practice Violation	EP6

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit MNL049786 held by WESTERN LAKE SSD in Duluth, MN, which EPA's file records as issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025, with a status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 0 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance, and it notes the Saint Louis River subwatershed (HUC 040102011604) as the receiving water context.