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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NDG323701

CATHAY CITY OF, Cathay, ND: NPDES NDG323701 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CATHAY CITY OF, held by Cathay City of, holds NPDES permit NDG323701, which discharges to James Headwaters. EPA’s file records it issued September 27, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024. 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 filedCATHAY CITY OF
Permittee as filedCathay City of
NPDES IDNDG323701
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 27, 2019
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2024
Issuing agencyNorth Dakota Department of Environmental Quality
AddressCathay, ND 58422
Receiving waterJames Headwaters
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedTown of Cathay (HUC 101600010303)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C3390
Solids, total suspended3390
pH2260
Flow, total1130

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NDG323701.

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 NDG323701.

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 14, 2026.