Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0024180

CAMBRIDGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, Cambridge, NE: NPDES NE0024180 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
25Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CAMBRIDGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, held by CAMBRIDGE WWTF, holds NPDES permit NE0024180, which discharges to Republican River. EPA’s file records it issued September 25, 2015 and expiring September 30, 2020. 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	CAMBRIDGE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filed	CAMBRIDGE WWTF
NPDES ID	NE0024180
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 25, 2015
Expiration date	September 30, 2020
Address	Cambridge, NE 69022
Receiving water	REPUBLICAN RIVER
Subwatershed	Richmond Creek-Republican River (HUC 102500040809)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

26Pollutants on file
25Under a numeric limit
25With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	12	42	10	September 30, 2015	214% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	4	4	August 31, 2014	554% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	5	28	2	September 30, 2014	90% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	5	40	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	18	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	16	0
pH	4	14	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	2	0
Selenium, sludge solid	1	2	0
Arsenic, sludge tot. dry wt [as As]	1	2	0
Nitrogen [as NO3] sludge solid	1	2	0
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]	1	2	0
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]	1	2	0
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]	1	2	0
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]	1	2	0
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]	1	2	0
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]	1	2	0
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]	1	2	0
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]	1	2	0
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]	1	2	0
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight	1	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia, sludge, tot dry wgt	1	2	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	1	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	1	1	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	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 NE0024180.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 14, 2026.