Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0037389

SCA TISSUE NORTH AMERICA LLC, Menasha, WI: NPDES WI0037389 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SCA TISSUE NORTH AMERICA LLC, held by SCA Tissue North America LLC, holds NPDES permit WI0037389, which discharges to L Little Lake Bu. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2013 and expiring June 30, 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	SCA TISSUE NORTH AMERICA LLC
Permittee as filed	SCA Tissue North America LLC
NPDES ID	WI0037389
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 1, 2013
Expiration date	June 30, 2018
Address	Menasha, WI 54957
Receiving water	L LITTLE LAKE BU
Subwatershed	Little Lake Butte des Mortes (HUC 040302040201)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Mercury, total recoverable	3	178	4	March 31, 2023	127% over the limit
pH	4	11	3	March 31, 2026
Solids, total suspended	6	23	1	March 31, 1998	11% over the limit
pH range excursions, > 60 minutes	0	174	0
Chlorine, total residual	4	172	0
Copper, total recoverable	0	172	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	22	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	10	20	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	6	20	0
pH range excursions, monthly total accum	0	4	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	6	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES WI0037389.

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 NPDES permit WI0037389, held by SCA Tissue North America LLC in Menasha, WI, which discharges to L LITTLE LAKE BU within the Little Lake Butte des Mortes subwatershed (HUC 040302040201). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 8 dischargers in class and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 11 pollutants on file. The permit was issued July 1, 2013 and expired June 30, 2018, with the status as of September 15, 2026.