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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000689

DEVIL'S ELBOW QUARRY, East Helena, MT: NPDES MTR000689 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEVIL'S ELBOW QUARRY, held by BULLOCK CONTRACTING LLC, holds NPDES permit MTR000689, which discharges to Hauser Lake. EPA’s file records it issued August 4, 2020 and expiring January 31, 2023. 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 filedDEVIL'S ELBOW QUARRY
Permittee as filedBULLOCK CONTRACTING LLC
NPDES IDMTR000689
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedAugust 4, 2020
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressEast Helena, MT 59635
Receiving waterHAUSER LAKE
SubwatershedMissouri River-Hauser Lake (HUC 100301011607)

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, total suspended120
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]120

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000689.

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 MTR000689.

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.