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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0022551

COLMAN, CITY OF, Colman, SD: NPDES SD0022551 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLMAN, CITY OF, held by Colman, City of, holds NPDES permit SD0022551, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary Of Bachelor Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024. 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 filedCOLMAN, CITY OF
Permittee as filedColman, City of
NPDES IDSD0022551
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 1, 2019
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2024
Issuing agencySDDANR
AddressColman, SD 57017
Receiving waterUnnamed Tributary of Bachelor Creek
SubwatershedLower Bachelor Creek (HUC 101702030502)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – 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

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]2411626May 31, 2025315% over the limit
Solids, total suspended210215September 30, 2012367% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2956May 31, 2025120% over the limit
pH2974May 31, 2025
Chlorine, total residual0401October 31, 2004268% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade2940
Flow rate2920
Coliform, fecal general0360
Duration of discharge1110
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]280
Flow, total170
Flowing, Receiving Stream140
Flow040

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
July 9, 2025Dry-weather SSO, no discharge to waters of the U.S., not permit compliant, no endangermentST6

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 NPDES discharge permit SD0022551 held by COLMAN, CITY OF, a publicly owned treatment works in Colman, SD, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary of Bachelor Creek within the Lower Bachelor Creek subwatershed (HUC 101702030502). The permit is listed as administratively continued, a minor discharger class, with 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.