Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ID0025887
NORTH IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION - WWTP, Cottonwood, ID: NPDES ID0025887 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 12Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
NORTH IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION - WWTP, held by NORTH IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, holds NPDES permit ID0025887, which discharges to Unnamed Creek To Lawyer Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 5, 2004 and expiring April 30, 2009. 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 filed | NORTH IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION - WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | NORTH IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION |
| NPDES ID | ID0025887 |
| 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 5, 2004 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2009 |
| Issuing agency | U.S. EPA, REGION 10 |
| Address | Cottonwood, ID 83522 |
| Receiving water | UNNAMED CREEK TO LAWYER CREEK |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Headwaters Lawyer Creek (HUC 170603060101) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 14Pollutants on file
- 12Under a numeric limit
- 14With a violation of any kind
- 9With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 5 | 456 | 441 | April 30, 2025 | 1,050% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 5 | 375 | 360 | April 30, 2021 | 905% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 1 | 165 | 157 | June 30, 2026 | 1,815% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 107 | 101 | April 30, 2026 | |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 90 | 87 | April 30, 2023 | 467% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 60 | 57 | June 30, 2020 | 373% over the limit |
| E. coli | 2 | 36 | 34 | October 31, 2014 | 714% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 6 | 90 | 32 | July 31, 2024 | 4,800% over the limit |
| E. coli, MTEC-MF | 0 | 10 | 8 | April 30, 2024 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 1 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ID0025887.
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.