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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AK0022497

CITY OF PALMER WWTF, Palmer, AK: NPDES AK0022497 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CITY OF PALMER WWTF, held by PALMER, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit AK0022497, which discharges to Matanuska River. EPA’s file records it issued December 5, 2006 and expiring December 31, 2011. 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 filedCITY OF PALMER WWTF
Permittee as filedPALMER, CITY OF
NPDES IDAK0022497
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 5, 2006
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2011
Issuing agencyADEC
AddressPalmer, AK 99645
Receiving waterMATANUSKA RIVER
SubwatershedOutlet Matanuska River (HUC 190204020709)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]16230218August 31, 20241,368% over the limit
Fecal coliform, MPN, EC med, 44.5 C45549February 29, 20241,550% over the limit
Solids, total suspended76847July 31, 2024240% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C74120August 31, 2020133% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1129April 30, 202195% over the limit
pH2126September 30, 2023
Solids, suspended percent removal196August 31, 202140% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal174February 28, 201720% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C011August 31, 2025115% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade130
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual130
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AK0022497.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.