Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MT0024783
TOWN OF SAVAGE WWTP, Savage, MT: NPDES MT0024783 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 12Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
TOWN OF SAVAGE WWTP, held by RICHLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, holds NPDES permit MT0024783, which discharges to Yellowstone River. EPA’s file records it issued September 25, 2006 and expiring October 31, 2011. 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 filed | TOWN OF SAVAGE WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | RICHLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS |
| NPDES ID | MT0024783 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | September 25, 2006 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2011 |
| Issuing agency | MONTANA DEQ |
| Address | Savage, MT 59262 |
| Receiving water | YELLOWSTONE RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Dunlap Creek (HUC 101000042202) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 18Pollutants on file
- 12Under a numeric limit
- 18With a violation of any kind
- 4With an effluent exceedance
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 measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 4 | 138 | 29 | May 31, 2015 | 18,533% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 131 | 22 | May 31, 2015 | 6,037% over the limit |
| Flow rate | 2 | 50 | 2 | May 31, 2015 | 4,331% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 0 | 22 | 1 | May 31, 2014 | 36% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 72 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 0 | 66 | 0 | ||
| E. coli, MTEC-MF | 3 | 59 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 1 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 0 | 42 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 1 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Duration | 1 | 24 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 0 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MT0024783.
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 September 15, 2026.