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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IL0024163

CATERPILLAR, INC. - PEORIA PROVING GROUND, Washington, IL: NPDES IL0024163 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CATERPILLAR, INC. - PEORIA PROVING GROUND, held by CATERPILLAR INC, holds NPDES permit IL0024163, which discharges to Tenmile Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 19, 2019 and expiring November 30, 2024. 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 filedCATERPILLAR, INC. - PEORIA PROVING GROUND
Permittee as filedCATERPILLAR INC
NPDES IDIL0024163
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 19, 2019
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2024
AddressWashington, IL 61571
Receiving waterTENMILE CREEK
SubwatershedTenmile Creek-Illinois River (HUC 071300011705)

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
pH275April 30, 2025
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C473October 31, 2014127% over the limit
Solids, total suspended451April 30, 20255% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual121July 31, 2026140% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant290
Oil & Grease480
Oil and grease060
Iron, total [as Fe]400
Coliform, fecal general100

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 IL0024163.

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 14, 2026.