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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0038229

THE WAY INTERNATIONAL, New Knoxville, OH: NPDES OH0038229 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

THE WAY INTERNATIONAL, held by The Way International, holds NPDES permit OH0038229, which discharges to Center Branch Of The St Marys River. EPA’s file records it issued February 5, 2018 and expiring February 28, 2023. 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 filedTHE WAY INTERNATIONAL
Permittee as filedThe Way International
NPDES IDOH0038229
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 5, 2018
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2023
AddressNew Knoxville, OH 45871
Receiving waterCenter Branch of the St Marys River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCenter Branch (HUC 041000040102)

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
E. coli, MTEC-MF21414October 31, 202515,694% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]888July 31, 2026366% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]477February 28, 2025473% over the limit
Solids, total suspended455October 31, 2024378% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]133July 31, 202326% over the limit
pH211July 31, 2025
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2180
Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C240
Temperature, water deg. centigrade200
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]200
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]200
Phosphorus, total [as P]200
Turbidity [severity]200
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers200

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 OH0038229.

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 15, 2026.