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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0000141

TILLAMOOK CREAMERY, Tillamook, OR: NPDES OR0000141 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TILLAMOOK CREAMERY, held by TILLAMOOK COUNTY CREAMERY ASSOCIATION, holds NPDES permit OR0000141, which discharges to Wilson River (Rm 1.7). EPA’s file records it issued June 8, 2007 and expiring December 31, 2011. 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 filedTILLAMOOK CREAMERY
Permittee as filedTILLAMOOK COUNTY CREAMERY ASSOCIATION
NPDES IDOR0000141
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 8, 2007
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2011
AddressTillamook, OR 97141
Receiving waterWILSON RIVER (RM 1.7)
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Wilson River (HUC 171002030508)
SIC2022 – Cheese, Natural And Processed
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ORD007909278

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

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 suspended31313November 30, 2021302% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C377February 29, 201656% over the limit
E. coli2105April 30, 2017496% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual211December 31, 201113% over the limit
pH420
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
Temperature, water deg. centigrade200
Chlorine usage200
Report due [yrmoda]200

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
February 26, 2017Monitoring Violations - Frequency of Sampling ViolationST6

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit OR0000141 held by Tillamook Creamery in Tillamook, OR, which discharges to the Wilson River (Rm 1.7) within the Lower Wilson River watershed (HUC 171002030508) and is administratively continued as a major discharger. The register lists 9 as the discharger class, 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued June 8, 2007 and expiring December 31, 2011.