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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010139

TILSTRA RANCH INC., Twin Bridges, MT: NPDES MTG010139 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TILSTRA RANCH INC., held by TILSTRA RANCH, holds NPDES permit MTG010139, which discharges to Mule Shoe Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued October 19, 2021 and expiring October 31, 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 filedTILSTRA RANCH INC.
Permittee as filedTILSTRA RANCH
NPDES IDMTG010139
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConcentrated animal feeding operations
IssuedOctober 19, 2021
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2023
AddressTwin Bridges, MT 59754
Receiving waterMULE SHOE DITCH
SubwatershedBeaverhead River-Big Dry Gulch (HUC 100200020703)
SIC0211 – Beef Cattle Feedlots

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C010
Solids, total suspended010
Nitrogen, total [as N]010
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]010
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]010
Phosphorus, total [as P]010
E. coli, MTEC-MF010
Duration010
Volume, total010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTG010139.

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 MTG010139.

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 TILSTRA RANCH INC. permit is one of 1 CAFO permits on EPA's NPDES register in Madison County, Montana, and it is also one of 1 NPDES permits in the Beaverhead River-Big Dry Gulch subwatershed. The permit records zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance.