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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000077

MEADOW GOLD DAIRY, Great Falls, MT: NPDES MTR000077 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MEADOW GOLD DAIRY, held by DEAN DAIRY FLUID LLC, holds NPDES permit MTR000077, which discharges to Missouri River. EPA’s file records it issued September 18, 2018 and expiring January 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 filedMEADOW GOLD DAIRY
Permittee as filedDEAN DAIRY FLUID LLC
NPDES IDMTR000077
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedSeptember 18, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressGreat Falls, MT 59405
Receiving waterMISSOURI RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMissouri River-Great Falls (HUC 100301021201)
SIC2026 – Fluid Milk

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
pH0540
Solids, total suspended0340
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]0340

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000077.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
March 30, 2023WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct InspectionsST6
March 30, 2023WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMPST6
March 30, 2023WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
March 30, 2023WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMPST6
March 30, 2023WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly install/implement BMPsST6

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MTR000077, held by DEAN DAIRY FLUID LLC for MEADOW GOLD DAIRY in Great Falls, MT, which discharges to the MISSOURI RIVER under an industrial stormwater program and is administratively continued. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued September 18, 2018 and expiring January 31, 2023.