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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000490

THE BOEING COMPANY - BOEING HELENA AERONAUTICS MANUFACTURING FACILITY, Helena, MT: NPDES MTR000490 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

THE BOEING COMPANY - BOEING HELENA AERONAUTICS MANUFACTURING FACILITY, held by THE BOEING COMPANY, holds NPDES permit MTR000490, which discharges to Prickly Pear Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 2018 and expiring January 31, 2023. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedTHE BOEING COMPANY - BOEING HELENA AERONAUTICS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
Permittee as filedTHE BOEING COMPANY
NPDES IDMTR000490
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
IssuedJuly 26, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressHelena, MT 59602
Receiving waterPRICKLY PEAR CREEK
SubwatershedLower Prickley Pear Gulch (HUC 100301011310)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTR000201707

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
pH020
Solids, total suspended020
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000490.

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 MTR000490.

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

The Boeing Company's Boeing Helena Aeronautics Manufacturing Facility permit is one of 30 storm water industrial permits in Lewis and Clark County on EPA's NPDES register, and 60.0% of those 30 permits have a violation on file. Among the 79 NPDES permits in the Lower Prickley Pear Gulch subwatershed, this one is listed with no pollutant under a numeric limit and no pollutant with an effluent exceedance.