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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KY0034223

DIETZ LAKE, Melbourne, KY: NPDES KY0034223 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DIETZ LAKE, held by Dietz Lake, holds NPDES permit KY0034223, which discharges to Four & Twelve Mile Crk. EPA’s file records it issued May 10, 2013 and expiring June 30, 2018. 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 filedDIETZ LAKE
Permittee as filedDietz Lake
NPDES IDKY0034223
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
IssuedMay 10, 2013
Expiration dateJune 30, 2018
AddressMelbourne, KY 41001
Receiving waterFOUR & TWELVE MILE CRK
SubwatershedTwelvemile Creek (HUC 050902011205)

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]812737June 30, 2020780% over the limit
E. coli25426March 31, 202199,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended47624December 31, 2019993% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]47319June 30, 20201,140% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]12815March 31, 202183% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual2357December 31, 20181,718% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general044September 30, 200799,999% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2440
pH2260

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
October 25, 2022Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
June 12, 2018Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
June 12, 2018Management Practice Violations - Improper Operation and MaintenanceST6
June 12, 2018Effluent Violations - Narrative Effluent ViolationST6
June 12, 2018Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
June 12, 2018Reporting Violations - Failure to NotifyST6

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.