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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0027863

GLACIAL LAKES ENERGY LLC, Watertown, SD: NPDES SD0027863 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GLACIAL LAKES ENERGY LLC holds NPDES permit SD0027863, which discharges to Big Sioux River. EPA’s file records it issued May 10, 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 filedGLACIAL LAKES ENERGY LLC
Permittee as filedGLACIAL LAKES ENERGY LLC
NPDES IDSD0027863
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
IssuedMay 10, 2007
Expiration dateJune 30, 2012
Issuing agencySDDENR
AddressWatertown, SD 57201
Receiving waterBIG SIOUX RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWillow Creek-Big Sioux River (HUC 101702010903)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler SDR000202366; ICIS-AIR source SD0000004602900018

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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit060
Flow rate060
Conductivity060
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C060
pH060
Solids, total suspended060
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]060
Chloride [as Cl]060
Solids, total dissolved060
Oil & Grease030
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual030
Chlorine, total residual030
Duration of discharge030
Flow, total030
Oil and grease visual030
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia020
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales Promelas020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES SD0027863.

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 SD0027863.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The Glacial Lakes Energy LLC permit is one of 3 individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in Codington County. It also sits among 15 NPDES permits in the Willow Creek-Big Sioux River subwatershed (HUC 101702010903). The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.