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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NDG321946

BUFFALO CITY OF, Buffalo, ND: NPDES NDG321946 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BUFFALO CITY OF, held by Buffalo City Of, holds NPDES permit NDG321946, which discharges to Maple. EPA’s file records it issued September 15, 2014 and expiring September 30, 2019. 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 filedBUFFALO CITY OF
Permittee as filedBuffalo City Of
NPDES IDNDG321946
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 15, 2014
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2019
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Health
AddressBuffalo, ND 58011
Receiving waterMaple
SubwatershedCity of Buffalo-Maple River (HUC 090202050206)

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 suspended3221September 30, 202249% over the limit
pH2151September 30, 2018
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C3210
Flow, total170

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 NDG321946.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit NDG321946, held by BUFFALO CITY OF in Buffalo, ND, which discharges to Maple. The page lists 4 pollutants on file, 4 of them under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it shows the permit as administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class.