Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0036579

WAYNE COUNTY GINGERY ALLOTMENT STP, Wooster, OH: NPDES OH0036579 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WAYNE COUNTY GINGERY ALLOTMENT STP, held by Wayne Co Brd of Comm, holds NPDES permit OH0036579, which discharges to Unnamed Stream. EPA’s file records it issued June 25, 2019 and expiring July 31, 2024. 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 filed	WAYNE COUNTY GINGERY ALLOTMENT STP
Permittee as filed	Wayne Co Brd of Comm
NPDES ID	OH0036579
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	June 25, 2019
Expiration date	July 31, 2024
Address	Wooster, OH 44691
Receiving water	Unnamed Stream
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Apple Creek (HUC 050400030601)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

16Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
15With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	34	22	February 28, 2022	1,276% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	53	17	October 31, 2014	2,637% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	0	6	6	July 31, 2014	670% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	17	5	February 29, 2016	142% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	9	3	September 30, 2015	1,403% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	17	1	September 30, 2014	25% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	3	1	December 31, 2006	60% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	4	0
pH	2	4	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	4	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	4	0
Turbidity [severity]	2	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	4	0
Overflows	2	4	0
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers	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 OH0036579.

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.