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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IA0047864

PRESTON CITY OF STP, Preston, IA: NPDES IA0047864 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PRESTON CITY OF STP, held by CITY OF PRESTON, holds NPDES permit IA0047864. EPA’s file records it issued May 1, 2017 and expiring April 30, 2022. 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 filedPRESTON CITY OF STP
Permittee as filedCITY OF PRESTON
NPDES IDIA0047864
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
IssuedMay 1, 2017
Expiration dateApril 30, 2022
Issuing agencySTA
AddressPreston, IA 52069
SubwatershedCopper Creek (HUC 070600060903)

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
pH59072July 31, 2021
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]46916November 30, 2019915% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general1235July 31, 2020488% over the limit
Solids, total suspended9553June 30, 2025240% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0142June 30, 2015298% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]162August 31, 202386% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]284691April 30, 200817% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C500
Chloride [as Cl]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 IA0047864.

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.