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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0049069

OAKDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, Oakdale, NE: NPDES NE0049069 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

OAKDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY, held by OAKDALE WWTF, holds NPDES permit NE0049069, which discharges to Elkhorn River. EPA’s file records it issued September 1, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022. 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 filedOAKDALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filedOAKDALE WWTF
NPDES IDNE0049069
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 1, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
AddressOakdale, NE 68761
Receiving waterELKHORN RIVER
SubwatershedTrueblood Creek-Elkhorn River (HUC 102200011304)

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]1228812April 30, 20244,820% over the limit
Solids, total suspended52872September 30, 1998193% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]031June 30, 199815% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C51770
pH31560
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant31450
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]01100
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit2680
Nitrogen, total [as N]2680
Phosphorus, total [as P]2680
Duration of discharge1670
E. coli, MTEC-MF2420
Flow, total1340
Coliform, fecal general0240
Chlorine, total residual040
Nickel, total recoverable020
Zinc, total recoverable020
Cadmium, total recoverable020
Lead, total recoverable020
Chromium, total recoverable020
Copper, total recoverable020
Selenium, sludge solid020
Arsenic, sludge tot. dry wt [as As]020
Nitrogen [as NO3] sludge solid020
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]020
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]020
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]020
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]020
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]020
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]020
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]020
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]020
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]020
Solids, sludge, total, dry weight020
Nitrogen, ammonia, sludge, tot dry wgt020

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 NE0049069.

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.