Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0025861

CITATION OIL AND GAS CORPORATION, Buffalo, SD: NPDES SD0025861 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CITATION OIL AND GAS CORPORATION, held by Citation Oil And Gas Corporation, holds NPDES permit SD0025861, which discharges to Hay Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 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 filed	CITATION OIL AND GAS CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	Citation Oil And Gas Corporation
NPDES ID	SD0025861
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
Issued	April 13, 2007
Expiration date	June 30, 2012
Issuing agency	SDDANR
Address	Buffalo, SD 57720
Receiving water	HAY CREEK
Subwatershed	Middle Jones Creek (HUC 101303020304)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Solids, total dissolved	6	216	6	March 31, 2013	86% over the limit
Hydrocarbons, total petroleum	9	313	4	March 31, 2015	370% over the limit
Flow rate	6	534	3	August 31, 2015	498% over the limit
pH	6	287	2	March 31, 2021
Duration of discharge	3	269	0
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual	3	265	0
Oil and grease visual	3	264	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	6	212	0
Conductivity	6	207	0
Flow, total	3	182	0
Radium 226, dissolved	6	149	0
Hydrocarbons, petroleum	0	84	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	3	67	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 SD0025861.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit SD0025861, held by Citation Oil And Gas Corporation in Buffalo, SD, which discharges to Hay Creek and is administratively continued past its June 30, 2012 expiration. The page lists 12 pollutants under a numeric limit, 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 13 pollutants on file, with the status reflecting EPA's permit file as loaded on September 15, 2026.