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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0029769

ODFW - MCKENZIE RIVER HATCHERY, Leaburg, OR: NPDES OR0029769 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ODFW - MCKENZIE RIVER HATCHERY, held by OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE, holds NPDES permit OR0029769, which discharges to Mckenzie River. EPA’s file records it issued July 13, 2007 and expiring June 30, 2012. 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 filedODFW - MCKENZIE RIVER HATCHERY
Permittee as filedOREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE
NPDES IDOR0029769
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
IssuedJuly 13, 2007
Expiration dateJune 30, 2012
AddressLeaburg, OR 97489
Receiving waterMCKENZIE RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLeaburg Canal-McKenzie River (HUC 170900040703)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ORQ000016311

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Excess thermal load066September 30, 20232,147,483,650% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade400
Flow rate400
pH400
Solids, total suspended400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
Solids, settleable300
Biomass, fish100
Formaldehyde100

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 OR0029769.

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 the Clean Water Act NPDES permit OR0029769, held by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife for the ODFW - MCKENZIE RIVER HATCHERY in Leaburg, OR, which discharges to the MCKENZIE RIVER. The permit is administratively continued, classed as a Minor discharger, with 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.