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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTX000135

GOLDEN ESTATES III, Helena, MT: NPDES MTX000135 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GOLDEN ESTATES III, held by GOLDEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOC, holds NPDES permit MTX000135, which discharges to Ground Water. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2009 and expiring September 30, 2014. 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 filedGOLDEN ESTATES III
Permittee as filedGOLDEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOC
NPDES IDMTX000135
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeState-issued individual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 1, 2009
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2014
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressHelena, MT 59602
Receiving waterGROUND WATER
SubwatershedLower Tenmile Creek (HUC 100301011406)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Nitrogen, total [as N]45847September 30, 2018127% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]2180
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]3130
Chloride [as Cl]3110
Specific conductance2100
Water level at sample collection time2100
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]1100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]190
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]080
Flow rate170
Coliform, fecal general060
E. coli, MTEC-MF350
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C110
Solids, total suspended110

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
November 27, 2018Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)ST6
November 27, 2018Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MTX000135 for GOLDEN ESTATES III in Helena, MT, held by GOLDEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOC and discharging to GROUND WATER in the Lower Tenmile Creek subwatershed (HUC 100301011406). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, issued October 1, 2009 and expiring September 30, 2014, and the facts show 14 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 14 with a violation of any kind.