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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0023515

MANISTIQUE WWTP, Manistique, MI: NPDES MI0023515 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MANISTIQUE WWTP, held by City of Manistique, holds NPDES permit MI0023515. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2016 and expiring October 1, 2020. 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 filedMANISTIQUE WWTP
Permittee as filedCity of Manistique
NPDES IDMI0023515
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 26, 2016
Expiration dateOctober 1, 2020
Issuing agencyState
AddressManistique, MI 49854
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedJamestown Slough-Manistique River (HUC 040601060604)

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
Solids, suspended percent removal23432April 30, 2026273% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general23026April 30, 2026607% over the limit
Solids, total suspended43122January 31, 2026271% over the limit
Mercury, total [as Hg]62818January 31, 201540,669% over the limit
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal21412April 30, 2026207% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]153May 31, 201916% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual1122September 30, 2016453% over the limit
pH282September 30, 2025
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]491March 31, 20161% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]451December 31, 2012100% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant240
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]420
Solids, total300
Arsenic, dry weight300
Selenium, dry weight300
Copper, dry weight300
Cadmium, dry weight300
Nitrogen, total Kjeldahl300
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]300
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]300
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]300
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]300
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]300
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]300
Potassium, sludge, total, dry weight [as K]300
Phosphorus, sludge, total, dry weight [as P]300

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
September 21, 2022Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
July 21, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
March 21, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
February 21, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
January 21, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
September 21, 2020Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2020Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
July 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
January 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 11, 2017Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab ErrorST6

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.