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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0000779

BNSF RAILWAY CO - WILLMAR, Willmar, MN: NPDES MN0000779 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BNSF RAILWAY CO - WILLMAR, held by BNSF Railway Co - Willmar, holds NPDES permit MN0000779. EPA’s file records it issued October 29, 2014 and expiring September 30, 2019. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for BNSF RAILWAY CO - WILLMAR: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Willmar, Minnesota. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MN0000779.

Identity

Facility as filedBNSF RAILWAY CO - WILLMAR
Permittee as filedBNSF Railway Co - Willmar
NPDES IDMN0000779
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
IssuedOctober 29, 2014
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2019
Issuing agencyMPCA
AddressWillmar, MN 56201
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWillmar Lake (HUC 070200040701)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MN0000779.

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 MN0000779.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.