Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTX000146

TURAH MEADOWS CO SEWER AND WATER DIST, Missoula, MT: NPDES MTX000146 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TURAH MEADOWS CO SEWER AND WATER DIST holds NPDES permit MTX000146, which discharges to Class I Ground Water. EPA’s file records it issued January 6, 2012 and expiring February 28, 2017. 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	TURAH MEADOWS CO SEWER AND WATER DIST
Permittee as filed	TURAH MEADOWS CO SEWER AND WATER DIST
NPDES ID	MTX000146
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	January 6, 2012
Expiration date	February 28, 2017
Issuing agency	MONTANA DEQ
Address	Missoula, MT 59802
Receiving water	CLASS I GROUND WATER
Subwatershed	Last Chance Gulch (HUC 100301011309)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Nitrogen, total [as N]	8	205	45	December 31, 2018	109% over the limit
Chloride [as Cl]	4	73	1	September 30, 2010	44% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	3	86	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	75	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	75	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	70	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	48	0
Solids, total suspended	1	48	0
Flow rate	2	42	0
Water level at sample collection time	2	18	0
Specific conductance	0	17	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	14	0
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	4	0
Conductivity	2	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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 28, 2025	Reporting Violations - Improper/ Incorrect Reporting	ST6
February 28, 2025	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	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 NPDES permit MTX000146, held by TURAH MEADOWS CO SEWER AND WATER DIST in Missoula, MT, which discharges to CLASS I GROUND WATER and is administratively continued. The page lists 14 pollutants on file, 12 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.