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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR300251

UNITED MATERIALS GREAT FALLS - JOHNSON PIT, Great Falls, MT: NPDES MTR300251 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UNITED MATERIALS GREAT FALLS - JOHNSON PIT, held by UNITED MATERIALS- GREAT FALLS, holds NPDES permit MTR300251, which discharges to Sand Coulee Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 31, 2003 and expiring November 16, 2007. 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 filedUNITED MATERIALS GREAT FALLS - JOHNSON PIT
Permittee as filedUNITED MATERIALS- GREAT FALLS
NPDES IDMTR300251
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
IssuedJanuary 31, 2003
Expiration dateNovember 16, 2007
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressGreat Falls, MT 59403
Receiving waterSAND COULEE CREEK
SubwatershedLower Sand Coulee Creek (HUC 100301020905)
SIC1442 – Construction Sand And Gravel
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTR000004721

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same 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
Flow rate020
Turbidity010
pH010
Solids, total suspended010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR300251.

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 MTR300251.

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

The UNITED MATERIALS GREAT FALLS - JOHNSON PIT storm water industrial permit is one of 36 such permits in Cascade County, and only 2.8% of those 36 carry an earlier issue date than this one. It sits among the 10 NPDES permits in the Lower Sand Coulee Creek subwatershed, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance on file.