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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTX000227

FETHERSTON CAR WASH, Helena, MT: NPDES MTX000227 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FETHERSTON CAR WASH, held by TIM FETHERSTON, holds NPDES permit MTX000227, which discharges to Prickly Pear Creek Nearest. 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.

What the register holds for FETHERSTON CAR WASH: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its its address in Helena, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTX000227.

Identity

Facility as filedFETHERSTON CAR WASH
Permittee as filedTIM FETHERSTON
NPDES IDMTX000227
Permit statusNot needed
Permit typeState-issued individual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressHelena, MT 59602
Receiving waterPRICKLY PEAR CREEK NEAREST
SubwatershedLake Helena (HUC 100301011504)
SIC7542 – Carwashes

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MTX000227.

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 MTX000227.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

Fetherston Car Wash, permitted to Tim Fetherston in Helena, is one of 27 state-issued individual permits in Lewis and Clark County on EPA's NPDES register, and it is among 19 NPDES permits in the Lake Helena subwatershed. Among those 27 county permits, 63.0% have a violation on file, whereas this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances recorded.