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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0033081

WAUKON CITY OF STP, Waukon, IA: NPDES IA0033081 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WAUKON CITY OF STP, held by CITY OF WAUKON, holds NPDES permit IA0033081. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedWAUKON CITY OF STP
Permittee as filedCITY OF WAUKON
NPDES IDIA0033081
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 1, 2016
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2021
Issuing agencySTA
AddressWaukon, IA 52172
SubwatershedHeadwaters Paint Creek (HUC 070600010801)

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]924638January 31, 2024200% over the limit
Solids, total suspended92711June 30, 2021189% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]42711April 30, 2021142% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]11610June 30, 202183% over the limit
Chloride [as Cl]577March 31, 2026457% over the limit
pH5122December 31, 2021
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia1130
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]1130
Copper, total [as Cu]880
Nitrogen, total [as N]1000
Phosphorus, total [as P]1000
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C500
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]500
Selenium, total [as Se]500

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 IA0033081.

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 14, 2026.