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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG081399

WESTERN BACKBONE PHASE 4, Fort Collins, CO: NPDES COG081399 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WESTERN BACKBONE PHASE 4, held by Connell Resources Inc, holds NPDES permit COG081399, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary To Unnamed Ponds. EPA’s file records it issued December 11, 2025 and expiring May 31, 2028. 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.

What the register holds for WESTERN BACKBONE PHASE 4: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Fort Collins, Colorado, its receiving water, and 13 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES COG081399.

Identity

Facility as filedWESTERN BACKBONE PHASE 4
Permittee as filedConnell Resources Inc
NPDES IDCOG081399
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 11, 2025
Expiration dateMay 31, 2028
AddressFort Collins, CO 80528
Receiving waterunnamed tributary to unnamed ponds
SubwatershedCity of Fort Collins-Cache La Poudre River (HUC 101900070805)

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
pH1200
Solids, total suspended1200
Arsenic, total recoverable1200
Iron, total recoverable1200
Iron, dissolved [as Fe]1200
Manganese, dissolved [as Mn]1200
Selenium, potentially dissolvd1200
Uranium, total1200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1200
Oil and grease600
Flow, total600
Duration of discharge600
Oil and grease visual600

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COG081399.

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 COG081399.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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.