Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0020796

ST CROIX FALLS CITY OF, St Croix Falls, WI: NPDES WI0020796 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ST CROIX FALLS CITY OF, held by CITY OF ST CROIX FALLS, holds NPDES permit WI0020796, which discharges to St Croix R. EPA’s file records it issued August 8, 2011 and expiring September 30, 2016. 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	ST CROIX FALLS CITY OF
Permittee as filed	CITY OF ST CROIX FALLS
NPDES ID	WI0020796
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	August 8, 2011
Expiration date	September 30, 2016
Address	St Croix Falls, WI 54024
Receiving water	ST CROIX R
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Osceola Creek-Saint Croix River (HUC 070300050902)
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

5Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
5With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Phosphorus, total [as P]	65	65	June 30, 2024	8,873% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	80	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	22	0
Solids, total suspended	22	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 5, 2017	WW SSO - Discharge to Waters	ST6

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit WI0020796, held by CITY OF ST CROIX FALLS for its publicly owned treatment works in St Croix Falls, WI, which discharges to the St Croix R within the Osceola Creek-Saint Croix River subwatershed (HUC 070300050902). The page lists a permit status of Administratively continued, a discharger class of Minor, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.