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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0024597

FELICITY WWTP, Felicity, OH: NPDES OH0024597 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FELICITY WWTP, held by Clermont Co Water Resources Dept, holds NPDES permit OH0024597, which discharges to Bear Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 27, 2017 and expiring February 28, 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 filedFELICITY WWTP
Permittee as filedClermont Co Water Resources Dept
NPDES IDOH0024597
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
IssuedJanuary 27, 2017
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2022
AddressFelicity, OH 45120
Receiving waterBear Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBear Creek-Ohio River (HUC 050902011106)

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]12142February 29, 202473% over the limit
Solids, total suspended10131May 31, 200230% over the limit
Oil and grease, hexane extr method121October 31, 2023170% over the limit
pH8160
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]10120
Temperature, water deg. centigrade6120
E. coli, MTEC-MF680
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]460
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]240
Phosphorus, total [as P]240
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant240
Overflows240
Nickel, total recoverable220
Zinc, total recoverable220
Cadmium, total recoverable220
Lead, total recoverable220
Chromium, total recoverable220
Copper, total recoverable220
Chromium, hexavalent dissolved [as Cr]220
Mercury, total low level220
Cyanide, free available220
Sludge weight, dry200

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 OH0024597.

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.