Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0070726

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, Douglas County, WI: NPDES WI0070726 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, held by BNSF Railway Company, holds NPDES permit WI0070726, which discharges to Nemadji R Via Dr. EPA’s file records it issued March 11, 2014 and expiring March 31, 2019. 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	BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
Permittee as filed	BNSF Railway Company
NPDES ID	WI0070726
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 11, 2014
Expiration date	March 31, 2019
Address	Douglas County, WI 54880
Receiving water	NEMADJI R VIA DR
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Nemadji River (HUC 040103010503)
SIC	4013 – Switching And Terminal Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source 0500055031R5001

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

2Pollutants on file
1Under a numeric limit
1With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	0	16	0
Chloride [as Cl]	1	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WI0070726.

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
January 9, 2019	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	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 WI0070726, held by BNSF Railway Company in Douglas County, WI, which discharges to Nemadji R Via Dr. The permit is a minor discharger class individual permit, administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. Its issue date is March 11, 2014 and its expiration date is March 31, 2019, with the receiving water listed as impaired under 303(D) and the subwatershed given as HUC 040103010503.