Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTX000002

CONTACT MINING COMPANY, Philipsburg, MT: NPDES MTX000002 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
25Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CONTACT MINING COMPANY holds NPDES permit MTX000002, which discharges to Ground Water. EPA’s file records it issued June 25, 2010 and expiring July 31, 2015. 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 filed	CONTACT MINING COMPANY
Permittee as filed	CONTACT MINING COMPANY
NPDES ID	MTX000002
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	State-issued individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 25, 2010
Expiration date	July 31, 2015
Issuing agency	MONTANA DEQ
Address	Philipsburg, MT 59858
Receiving water	GROUND WATER
Subwatershed	Flint Creek-Philipsburg (HUC 170102020202)
SIC	1041 – Gold Ores

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

25Pollutants on file
25Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Arsenic, dissolved [as As]	12	50	2	June 30, 2010	175% over the limit
Cadmium, dissolved [as Cd]	12	49	1	October 31, 2005	40% over the limit
Lead, dissolved [as Pb]	12	49	1	July 31, 2005	1,500% over the limit
Mercury, dissolved [as Hg]	12	49	0
Specific conductance	12	48	0
pH	12	48	0
Zinc, dissolved [as Zn]	12	48	0
Copper, dissolved [as Cu]	9	48	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	12	36	0
Flow rate	6	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	12	0	0
Beryllium, dissolved [as Be]	9	0	0
Chromium, dissolved [as Cr]	9	0	0
Thallium, dissolved [as Tl]	9	0	0
Nickel, dissolved [as Ni]	9	0	0
Silver, dissolved [as Ag]	9	0	0
Antimony, dissolved [as Sb]	9	0	0
Selenium, dissolved [as Se]	9	0	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	6	0	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	6	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	6	0	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	6	0	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	3	0	0
Duration	3	0	0
Water level at sample collection time	3	0	0

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MTX000002.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MTX000002, held by CONTACT MINING COMPANY in Philipsburg, MT, with the permit administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger. The page lists 25 pollutants on file, 3 of them under a numeric limit and 3 with an effluent exceedance, and it cites the permit's issue date of June 25, 2010 and expiration date of July 31, 2015 as they stood in EPA's file on October 14, 2026.