Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MT0030414

CITY OF WHITEFISH WTP, Whitefish, MT: NPDES MT0030414 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CITY OF WHITEFISH WTP, held by CITY OF WHITEFISH, holds NPDES permit MT0030414, which discharges to Unnamed Lake Trib To Whitefish Lake. EPA’s file records it issued December 9, 2013 and expiring January 31, 2019. 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	CITY OF WHITEFISH WTP
Permittee as filed	CITY OF WHITEFISH
NPDES ID	MT0030414
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	December 9, 2013
Expiration date	January 31, 2019
Address	Whitefish, MT 59937
Receiving water	UNNAMED LAKE TRIB TO WHITEFISH LAKE
Subwatershed	Whitefish Lake (HUC 170102100506)
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

7Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
2With 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
pH	2	12	2	November 30, 2020
Turbidity	4	59	1	December 31, 2020
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	5	29	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	18	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	16	0
Duration of discharge	1	5	0
Flow rate	2	2	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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 11, 2018	Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain Records	ST6
January 11, 2018	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MT0030414 for the CITY OF WHITEFISH WTP in Whitefish, MT, held by CITY OF WHITEFISH, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of minor. The page lists 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued December 9, 2013 and expiring January 31, 2019.