Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0095494
DEFIANCE COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL, Defiance, OH: NPDES OH0095494 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 22Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
DEFIANCE COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL, held by Defiance Co Brd Comm, holds NPDES permit OH0095494, which discharges to Three Mile Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 14, 2017 and expiring September 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 filed | DEFIANCE COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Defiance Co Brd Comm |
| NPDES ID | OH0095494 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | September 14, 2017 |
| Expiration date | September 30, 2022 |
| Address | Defiance, OH 43512 |
| Receiving water | Three Mile Creek |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Eagle Creek-Auglaize River (HUC 041000071209) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 24Pollutants on file
- 22Under a numeric limit
- 17With 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 | 59 | 43 | April 30, 2026 | 442% over the limit |
| pH | 4 | 26 | 10 | January 31, 2023 | |
| Oil and grease, hexane extr method | 0 | 3 | 1 | August 31, 2007 | 6% over the limit |
| Flow rate | 4 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD] | 4 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 4 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 4 | 16 | 0 | ||
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 4 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Color, spectrophoto-metric filter | 4 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Odor, atmospheric [severity] | 4 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity [severity] | 4 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C | 4 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot. | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Boron, total recoverable | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Boron, total [as B] | 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 OH0095494.
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.