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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTB004812

ERNEST BRATCHER BITTERROOT RIVER BANK EROSION 318, Hamilton, MT: NPDES MTB004812 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ERNEST BRATCHER BITTERROOT RIVER BANK EROSION 318, held by ERNEST BRATCHER, holds NPDES permit MTB004812, which discharges to Bitterroot River. 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.

What the register holds for ERNEST BRATCHER BITTERROOT RIVER BANK EROSION 318: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its its address in Hamilton, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTB004812.

Identity

Facility as filedERNEST BRATCHER BITTERROOT RIVER BANK EROSION 318
Permittee as filedERNEST BRATCHER
NPDES IDMTB004812
Permit statusNot needed
Permit typeState-issued individual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressHamilton, MT 59840
Receiving waterBITTERROOT RIVER
SubwatershedBitterroot River-Lick Creek (HUC 170102050807)
SIC1629 – Heavy Construction

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MTB004812.

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 MTB004812.

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

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The ERNEST BRATCHER BITTERROOT RIVER BANK EROSION 318 permit, held by ERNEST BRATCHER, is one of 15 state-issued individual permits in Ravalli County, and 33.3% of that group has a violation on file. It sits among 4 NPDES permits in the Bitterroot River-Lick Creek subwatershed, including this one. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances.