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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010278

HORIZON COLONY CAFO, Cut Bank, MT: NPDES MTG010278 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HORIZON COLONY CAFO, held by HORIZON COLONY, holds NPDES permit MTG010278, which discharges to Stanton Coulee. EPA’s file records it issued November 25, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2018. 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.

What the register holds for HORIZON COLONY CAFO: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Cut Bank, Montana, its receiving water, and 9 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTG010278.

Identity

Facility as filedHORIZON COLONY CAFO
Permittee as filedHORIZON COLONY
NPDES IDMTG010278
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
IssuedNovember 25, 2015
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2018
AddressCut Bank, MT 59427
Receiving waterSTANTON COULEE
SubwatershedStaton Coulee (HUC 100500040502)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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. C100
Solids, total suspended100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100
E. coli, MTEC-MF100
Duration100
Volume, total100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTG010278.

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 MTG010278.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MTG010278 for HORIZON COLONY CAFO in Cut Bank, Montana, held by HORIZON COLONY, under the Concentrated animal feeding operations program, with an administratively continued status and a Minor Discharger class. The figures listed are 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.