Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0146480

BUCYRUS WATER TREATMENT PLANT (#2), Bucyrus, OH: NPDES OH0146480 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BUCYRUS WATER TREATMENT PLANT (#2), held by City of Bucyrus, holds NPDES permit OH0146480, which discharges to Sandusky River. EPA’s file records it issued July 15, 2020 and expiring July 31, 2025. 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 filed	BUCYRUS WATER TREATMENT PLANT (#2)
Permittee as filed	City of Bucyrus
NPDES ID	OH0146480
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
Program	Combined sewer overflows
Issued	July 15, 2020
Expiration date	July 31, 2025
Address	Bucyrus, OH 44820
Receiving water	Sandusky River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Riley Reservoir-Sandusky River (HUC 041000110403)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
5With 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
Chlorine, total residual	1	3	3	March 31, 2024	900% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	11	1	April 30, 2021	12% over the limit
pH	2	10	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	10	0
Trihalomethane, tot.	0	2	0
Flow rate	2	0	0
Copper, total recoverable	2	0	0
Dichlorobromomethane	2	0	0
Bromoform	2	0	0
Dibromochloromethane	2	0	0
Chloroform	2	0	0
Methyl bromide [Bromomethane]	2	0	0
Methyl chloride [Chloromethane]	2	0	0
Methylene chloride	2	0	0
Microcystin	2	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 OH0146480.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit OH0146480 for the Bucyrus Water Treatment Plant (#2) in Bucyrus, OH, held by City of Bucyrus and discharging to the Sandusky River, with the permit listed as administratively continued. The register shows 15 pollutants on file, 13 with a numeric limit's status noted, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.