Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0121606

WHISPERING PINES MHP, Riceland, OH: NPDES OH0121606 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WHISPERING PINES MHP, held by Whispering Pines Estates, holds NPDES permit OH0121606, which discharges to Ut Of Sugar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 28, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. 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	WHISPERING PINES MHP
Permittee as filed	Whispering Pines Estates
NPDES ID	OH0121606
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	August 28, 2012
Expiration date	September 30, 2017
Address	Riceland, OH 44667
Receiving water	UT of Sugar Creek
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Town of Brewster-Sugar Creek (HUC 050400010904)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

18Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
8With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	309	205	February 28, 2021	42,122% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	141	37	July 31, 2020	2,627% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	0	35	31	May 31, 2011	99,999% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	49	23	June 30, 2020	100% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	123	19	June 30, 2016	8,344% over the limit
pH	2	71	19	February 28, 2006
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	29	13	July 31, 2020	19,106% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	24	11	June 30, 2021	5,321% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	56	0
Turbidity [severity]	2	56	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	56	0
Color, spectrophoto-metric filter	0	16	0
Odor, atmospheric [severity]	0	16	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	12	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	12	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	12	0
Sludge waste from secondary clarifiers	2	8	0
Biosolids weight indluding admixtures	0	2	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 31, 2020	WW SSO - Numeric effluent violation	ST6

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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