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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KS0024775

BLUE RAPIDS, CITY OF (WWTP), Blue Rapids, KS: NPDES KS0024775 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BLUE RAPIDS, CITY OF (WWTP), held by BLUE RAPIDS WASTEWATER PLANT, holds NPDES permit KS0024775, which discharges to Big Blue R (1027020517). EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedBLUE RAPIDS, CITY OF (WWTP)
Permittee as filedBLUE RAPIDS WASTEWATER PLANT
NPDES IDKS0024775
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
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
Issuing agencyKansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
AddressBlue Rapids, KS 66411
Receiving waterBig Blue R (1027020517)
SubwatershedElm Creek-Big Blue River (HUC 102702050503)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C3134December 31, 202481% over the limit
Solids, total suspended3134December 31, 202565% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]441December 31, 202122% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]250
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]240
E. coli530
pH130
Nitrogen, total [as N]120
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]120
Lead, total recoverable020
Copper, total recoverable020

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 KS0024775.

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.