Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MT0021571
TOWN OF BELT - WWTP, Belt, MT: NPDES MT0021571 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 27Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
TOWN OF BELT - WWTP, held by TOWN OF BELT, holds NPDES permit MT0021571, which discharges to Belt Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 2011 and expiring August 31, 2016. 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.
Identity
| Facility as filed | TOWN OF BELT - WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | TOWN OF BELT |
| NPDES ID | MT0021571 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | July 26, 2011 |
| Expiration date | August 31, 2016 |
| Issuing agency | MONTANA DEQ |
| Address | Belt, MT 59412 |
| Receiving water | BELT CREEK |
| Subwatershed | Belt Creek-Belt (HUC 100301050401) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 32Pollutants on file
- 27Under a numeric limit
- 32With a violation of any kind
- 7With an effluent exceedance
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 measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli, MTEC-MF | 8 | 162 | 153 | September 30, 2018 | 43,125% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 18 | 198 | 83 | September 30, 2018 | 251% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 10 | 173 | 56 | September 30, 2018 | 233% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 105 | 35 | August 31, 2011 | 4,500% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 2 | 53 | 22 | September 30, 2018 | 185% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 2 | 39 | 8 | May 31, 2015 | 567% over the limit |
| pH | 4 | 71 | 1 | March 31, 2026 | |
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 4 | 72 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 3 | 69 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate | 0 | 57 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 4 | 38 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 4 | 36 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 2 | 32 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 2 | 31 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 0 | 28 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved | 0 | 26 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 0 | 25 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate | 4 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 4 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 4 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 4 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 4 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total recoverable | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Salinity | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease, hexane extr method | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MT0021571.
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 15, 2026.