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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0055166

TRI-LAKES REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT, Whitley County, IN: NPDES IN0055166 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TRI-LAKES REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT holds NPDES permit IN0055166, which discharges to Eel R (Wabash) Via Blue River. EPA’s file records it issued June 30, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022. 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 filedTRI-LAKES REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT
Permittee as filedTRI-LAKES REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT
NPDES IDIN0055166
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
IssuedJune 30, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
Issuing agencyIDEM
AddressWhitley County, IN 46725
Receiving waterEEL R (WABASH) VIA BLUE RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMud Run-Blue River (HUC 051201040102)

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
pH2359February 28, 2007
Solids, total suspended2304November 30, 200736% over the limit
Dilution factor1164June 30, 20041,300% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]2291November 30, 199915% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2280
Streamflow1270
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]2180
Flow, total150
Flow, wastewater by-passing trtmnt plant050
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]340
Number of Events210

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 IN0055166.

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.