Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NDR320748

GRATECH COMPANY LLC - NICHOLS PIT - PALERMO, Berthold, ND: NPDES NDR320748 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GRATECH COMPANY LLC - NICHOLS PIT - PALERMO, held by Gratech Company LLC, holds NPDES permit NDR320748, which discharges to Lake Sakakawea. EPA’s file records it issued December 23, 2019 and expiring December 31, 2024. 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.

What the register holds for GRATECH COMPANY LLC - NICHOLS PIT - PALERMO: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Berthold, North Dakota, its receiving water, and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NDR320748.

Identity

Facility as filed	GRATECH COMPANY LLC - NICHOLS PIT - PALERMO
Permittee as filed	Gratech Company LLC
NPDES ID	NDR320748
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 23, 2019
Expiration date	December 31, 2024
Issuing agency	North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
Address	Berthold, ND 58718
Receiving water	Lake Sakakawea

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	1	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NDR320748.

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 NDR320748.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit NDR320748, held by Gratech Company LLC for its GRATECH COMPANY LLC - NICHOLS PIT - PALERMO facility in Berthold, ND, which discharges to Lake Sakakawea. The register lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit status shown as administratively continued and the discharger class as Minor.