Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0024040

FOUNTAIN CITY WWTF, Fountain City, WI: NPDES WI0024040 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FOUNTAIN CITY WWTF, held by Fountain City, holds NPDES permit WI0024040, which discharges to Mississippi R. EPA’s file records it issued March 15, 2013 and expiring March 31, 2018. 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	FOUNTAIN CITY WWTF
Permittee as filed	Fountain City
NPDES ID	WI0024040
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	March 15, 2013
Expiration date	March 31, 2018
Address	Fountain City, WI 54629
Receiving water	MISSISSIPPI R
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Fountain City-Mississippi River (HUC 070400030606)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Phosphorus, total [as P]	3	35	9	August 31, 2024	3,399% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	45	6	August 31, 2024	400% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	54	2	June 30, 1989	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	17	1	March 31, 2018
Solids, total suspended	4	52	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	16	0
Chlorine, total residual	0	6	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
September 13, 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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers the NPDES discharge permit WI0024040 held by Fountain City for the FOUNTAIN CITY WWTF, a publicly owned treatment works discharging to the Mississippi R. The permit, issued March 15, 2013 and expiring March 31, 2018, is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class, 5 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The page also lists 7 pollutants on file and the subwatershed Fountain City-Mississippi River (HUC 070400030606).