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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0026662

LONESOME CREEK STATION, Alexander, ND: NPDES ND0026662 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LONESOME CREEK STATION, held by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, holds NPDES permit ND0026662, which discharges to Lower Yellowstone. EPA’s file records it issued September 4, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024. 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 LONESOME CREEK STATION: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Alexander, North Dakota, its receiving water, and 9 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ND0026662.

Identity

Facility as filedLONESOME CREEK STATION
Permittee as filedBasin Electric Power Cooperative
NPDES IDND0026662
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
IssuedSeptember 4, 2019
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2024
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
AddressAlexander, ND 58831
Receiving waterLower Yellowstone
SubwatershedLonesome Creek (HUC 101000042605)
NAICS221112 – Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation
SIC4911 – Electric Services

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

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 suspended300
Oil & Grease300
Sodium, total [as Na]300
Chloride [as Cl]300
Sulfate, total [as SO4]300
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Flow, total100
Oil and grease visual100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ND0026662.

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 ND0026662.

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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ND0026662 for LONESOME CREEK STATION in Alexander, ND, held by Basin Electric Power Cooperative and discharging to the Lower Yellowstone, with its status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The figures listed are 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.