Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0028631

USVA - SIOUX FALLS VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, Sioux Falls, SD: NPDES SD0028631 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

USVA - SIOUX FALLS VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, held by USVA - Sioux Falls VA Health Care System, holds NPDES permit SD0028631, which discharges to Big Sioux River. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2021 and expiring August 31, 2026. 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	USVA - SIOUX FALLS VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Permittee as filed	USVA - Sioux Falls VA Health Care System
NPDES ID	SD0028631
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Federal facility
Issued	July 31, 2021
Expiration date	August 31, 2026
Issuing agency	SDDANR
Address	Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Receiving water	Big Sioux River
Subwatershed	Falls of the Big Sioux River (HUC 101702031203)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler SD3360010331; ICIS-AIR source SD0000004609900038

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Conductivity	2	2	2	October 31, 2021	106,460% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	2	0
Solids, total dissolved	2	1	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	0	0
Flow rate	2	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual	1	0	0
Flow, total	1	0	0
Duration of discharge	1	0	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 SD0028631.

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 discharge permit NPDES SD0028631 for USVA - Sioux Falls VA Health Care System in Sioux Falls, SD, which discharges to the Big Sioux River within the Falls of the Big Sioux River watershed (HUC 101702031203). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 9 as the discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.