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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ND0025232

BASIN ELECTRIC POWER LOLDS, Stanton, ND: NPDES ND0025232 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BASIN ELECTRIC POWER LOLDS, held by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, holds NPDES permit ND0025232, which discharges to Painted Woods-Square Butte. EPA’s file records it issued September 10, 2018 and expiring December 31, 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 filedBASIN ELECTRIC POWER LOLDS
Permittee as filedBasin Electric Power Cooperative
NPDES IDND0025232
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 10, 2018
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2021
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
AddressStanton, ND 58571
Receiving waterPainted Woods-Square Butte
SubwatershedAlderin Creek-Missouri River (HUC 101301010104)

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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit61413October 31, 202413% over the limit
Solids, total suspended2074October 31, 2023120% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]1752April 30, 201576% over the limit
Oil and grease, hexane extr method611March 31, 2020110% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]1260
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]550
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]1230
Selenium, total recoverable1230
Arsenic, total [as As]1230
Thallium, total [as Tl]1230
Nickel, total [as Ni]1230
Silver, total [as Ag]1230
Aluminum, total [as Al]1230
Cadmium, total recoverable1230
Chromium, total recoverable1230
Copper, total recoverable1230
Mercury, total recoverable1230
Lead, total recoverable930
Phosphorus, total [as P]530
Barium, total [as Ba]330
pH1420
Analytical Chemistry210
Toxic Units Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia210
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1400
Chloride [as Cl]900
Barium, total recoverable900
Flow, total700
Copper, total [as Cu]500
Lead, total [as Pb]300
Duration of discharge300
TU Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimphales promelas200
Oil and grease visual100

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 ND0025232.

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.