Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0021636

WHITING WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, Whiting, WI: NPDES WI0021636 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WHITING WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, held by Whiting, Village of, holds NPDES permit WI0021636, which discharges to Wisconsin R. EPA’s file records it issued June 28, 2012 and expiring June 30, 2017. 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	WHITING WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Whiting, Village of
NPDES ID	WI0021636
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	June 28, 2012
Expiration date	June 30, 2017
Address	Whiting, WI 54481
Receiving water	WISCONSIN R
Subwatershed	Village of Plover-Wisconsin River (HUC 070700030304)
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

6Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	53	19	June 30, 2024	13,500% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	69	1	November 30, 1991	3% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	68	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	60	0
pH	2	34	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	34	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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 28, 2024	WW SSO - Discharge to Waters	ST6
May 10, 2023	WW SSO - Discharge to Waters	ST6
April 6, 2023	WW SSO - Discharge to Waters	ST6
May 13, 2018	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 NPDES permit WI0021636 for the WHITING WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY in Whiting, WI, a publicly owned treatment works discharging to WISCONSIN R, with the permit listed as administratively continued. The figures shown are a Minor Discharger class of 5, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.