Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0022276

ASHTON, TOWN OF, Ashton, SD: NPDES SD0022276 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ASHTON, TOWN OF, held by Ashton, Town of, holds NPDES permit SD0022276, which discharges to James River. EPA’s file records it issued March 14, 2014 and expiring March 31, 2019. 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 filed	ASHTON, TOWN OF
Permittee as filed	Ashton, Town of
NPDES ID	SD0022276
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 14, 2014
Expiration date	March 31, 2019
Issuing agency	SDDENR
Address	Ashton, SD 57424
Receiving water	James River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Snake Creek-James River (HUC 101600060403)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
15With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	107	1	March 31, 2010	23% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	107	1	November 30, 2011	20% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	108	0
Flow rate	2	108	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	108	0
pH	2	106	0
Flow, total	0	76	0
Duration	0	37	0
Chlorine, total residual	0	37	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	34	0
Flow, total	1	16	0
Duration of discharge	1	16	0
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]	2	10	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	2	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 SD0022276.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES SD0022276, held by ASHTON, TOWN OF of Ashton, SD, which discharges to the James River within the Snake Creek-James River subwatershed (HUC 101600060403). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.