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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0003662

DTE-W C TAGGART STATION, Six Lakes, MI: NPDES MI0003662 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DTE-W C TAGGART STATION, held by DTE Gas Company, holds NPDES permit MI0003662, which discharges to First Lake. EPA’s file records it issued December 16, 2016 and expiring October 1, 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 filedDTE-W C TAGGART STATION
Permittee as filedDTE Gas Company
NPDES IDMI0003662
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
IssuedDecember 16, 2016
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2022
Issuing agencyState
AddressSix Lakes, MI 48886
Receiving waterFirst Lake
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedTownline Creek-Flat River (HUC 040500060103)

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
pH21271June 30, 2023
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit41120
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2360
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response1180

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
November 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
August 23, 2024Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
August 23, 2024Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab ErrorST6
July 17, 2019Monitoring Violations - Analysis not ConductedST6

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.