Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0024791

FALKIRK MINING CO, Underwood, ND: NPDES ND0024791 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FALKIRK MINING CO, held by Falkirk Mining Co, holds NPDES permit ND0024791, which discharges to Painted Woods-Square Butte. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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	FALKIRK MINING CO
Permittee as filed	Falkirk Mining Co
NPDES ID	ND0024791
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 26, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Issuing agency	North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
Address	Underwood, ND 58576
Receiving water	Painted Woods-Square Butte
Subwatershed	101101013603 (HUC 101101013603)
NAICS	212111 – Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler NDD039378369; ICIS-AIR source ND0000003805500018

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Iron, total [as Fe]	153	35	2	March 31, 2019	129% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	291	16	1	June 30, 2014	11% over the limit
Solids, settleable	240	50	0
Flow rate	193	16	0
pH	194	10	0
Flow, total	97	5	0
Oil and grease visual	51	5	0
Oil & Grease	153	0	0
Duration of discharge	97	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 ND0024791.

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.

This public-records page covers Falkirk Mining Co's NPDES discharge permit ND0024791 in Underwood, ND, which discharges to Painted Woods-Square Butte and is administratively continued. The permit is classed as a Minor discharger, with 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.