Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0024791
FALKIRK MINING CO, Underwood, ND: NPDES ND0024791 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 9Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
FALKIRK MINING CO, held by Falkirk Mining Co, holds NPDES permit ND0024791, which discharges to Painted Woods-Square Butte. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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 filed | FALKIRK MINING CO |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Falkirk Mining Co |
| NPDES ID | ND0024791 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | June 26, 2018 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2023 |
| Issuing agency | North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality |
| Address | Underwood, ND 58576 |
| Receiving water | Painted Woods-Square Butte |
| Subwatershed | 101101013603 (HUC 101101013603) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 9Pollutants on file
- 9Under a numeric limit
- 7With a violation of any kind
- 2With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron, total [as Fe] | 153 | 35 | 2 | March 31, 2019 | 129% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 291 | 16 | 1 | June 30, 2014 | 11% over the limit |
| Solids, settleable | 240 | 50 | 0 | ||
| Flow rate | 193 | 16 | 0 | ||
| pH | 194 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Flow, total | 97 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease visual | 51 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 153 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Duration of discharge | 97 | 0 | 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 ND0024791.
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.