Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000538

BAKKEN AGGREGATES - GUSTAFSON PIT, Culbertson, MT: NPDES MTR000538 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
2Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BAKKEN AGGREGATES - GUSTAFSON PIT, held by BAKKEN AGGREGATES LLC, holds NPDES permit MTR000538, which discharges to East Hardscrabble Creek Drainage. EPA’s file records it issued May 3, 2013 and expiring January 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	BAKKEN AGGREGATES - GUSTAFSON PIT
Permittee as filed	BAKKEN AGGREGATES LLC
NPDES ID	MTR000538
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	May 3, 2013
Expiration date	January 31, 2018
Issuing agency	MONTANA DEQ
Address	Culbertson, MT 59218
Receiving water	EAST HARDSCRABBLE CREEK DRAINAGE
Subwatershed	Lower East Hardscrabble Creek (HUC 100600050302)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

2Pollutants on file
2Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	3	10	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	3	10	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000538.

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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 1, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct Inspections	ST6
May 1, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Maintain Records	ST6
May 1, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Monitor	ST6
May 1, 2019	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly operate and maintain BMPs	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MTR000538 for BAKKEN AGGREGATES - GUSTAFSON PIT in Culbertson, MT, held by BAKKEN AGGREGATES LLC, with a permit status of administratively continued and a discharger class of 2 Minor Discharger. The file lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it discharges to the East Hardscrabble Creek Drainage in the Lower East Hardscrabble Creek subwatershed (HUC 100600050302).