Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0039021

SUNSHINE ACRES WWTP, Painesville, OH: NPDES OH0039021 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SUNSHINE ACRES WWTP, held by Lake Co Comm, holds NPDES permit OH0039021, which discharges to Ut Of East Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 17, 2017 and expiring August 31, 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 filed	SUNSHINE ACRES WWTP
Permittee as filed	Lake Co Comm
NPDES ID	OH0039021
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	July 17, 2017
Expiration date	August 31, 2022
Address	Painesville, OH 44077
Receiving water	UT of East Creek
Subwatershed	Big Creek (HUC 041100040606)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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	12	12	April 30, 2004	308% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	8	8	September 30, 2003	77% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	6	6	February 28, 2009	231% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Turbidity [severity]	2	0	0
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Overflows	2	0	0
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	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 OH0039021.

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.