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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0023183

SOUTHWEST WATER AUTHORITY, Dickinson, ND: NPDES ND0023183 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SOUTHWEST WATER AUTHORITY, held by Southwest Water Authority, holds NPDES permit ND0023183, which discharges to Upper Heart. EPA’s file records it issued May 21, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017. 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 filedSOUTHWEST WATER AUTHORITY
Permittee as filedSouthwest Water Authority
NPDES IDND0023183
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 21, 2012
Expiration dateJune 30, 2017
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Health
AddressDickinson, ND 58601
Receiving waterUpper Heart
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCity of Dickinson (HUC 101302020305)

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
Solids, total suspended360
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]360
pH240
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant240
Flow, total120

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ND0023183.

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 ND0023183.

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

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ND0023183, held by Southwest Water Authority in Dickinson, ND, which discharges to Upper Heart. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class of 5, zero pollutants under a numeric limit, and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance.