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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0025011

DAKOTA GASIFICATION CO, Beulah, ND: NPDES ND0025011 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DAKOTA GASIFICATION CO, held by Dakota Gasification Company, holds NPDES permit ND0025011, which discharges to Knife. EPA’s file records it issued September 8, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. 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 filedDAKOTA GASIFICATION CO
Permittee as filedDakota Gasification Company
NPDES IDND0025011
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
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 8, 2016
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2021
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
AddressBeulah, ND 58523
Receiving waterKnife
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBoekel Cemetery (HUC 101302011102)

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
E. coli33324June 30, 2026949% over the limit
Solids, total suspended121111May 31, 2025944% over the limit
pH1077April 30, 2023
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C12186January 31, 2023118% over the limit
Toxic Units Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia132June 30, 202569% over the limit
TU Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimphales promelas132September 30, 2023182% over the limit
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]311March 31, 201912% over the limit
Oil and grease visual311July 31, 20252,147,483,650% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]1500
Phosphorus, total [as P]1400
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]1200
Oil & Grease900
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit600
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]300
Sulfate, total [as SO4]300
Total phenols300
Sodium, % total cations300
Isopropyl ether300
Flow rate200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Flow, total200

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 ND0025011.

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 15, 2026.