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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NE0138029

AURORA WEST LLC, Aurora, NE: NPDES NE0138029 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AURORA WEST LLC, held by Aurora West LLC, holds NPDES permit NE0138029, which discharges to Lincoln Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 21, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2022. 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 filedAURORA WEST LLC
Permittee as filedAurora West LLC
NPDES IDNE0138029
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual industrial user permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 21, 2017
Expiration dateJune 30, 2022
AddressAurora, NE 68818
Receiving waterLINCOLN CREEK

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
pH4180
Hydrocarbons, total gas chromatograph4160
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C4150
Solids, total suspended4130
Hydrocarbons, petroleum0100
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]290
Conductivity480
Chloride [as Cl]1270
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit370
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]070
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant440
Flow, maximum flow range030
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]030
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]030
Phosphorus, total [as P]030
Sodium adsorption ratio030
Solids, total dissolved030
Duration of discharge030
Chromium, dissolved [as Cr]220
Copper, dissolved [as Cu]220
Iron, dissolved [as Fe]220
Manganese, dissolved [as Mn]220
Nickel, dissolved [as Ni]220
Zinc, dissolved [as Zn]220
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia220
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]220
Nitrogen, total [as N]020
Chlorine, total residual1200
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NE0138029.

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 NE0138029.

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.