Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0122173

BLACK RIVER LOCAL SCHOOLS, Sullivan, OH: NPDES OH0122173 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLACK RIVER LOCAL SCHOOLS, held by Black River Local Schools, holds NPDES permit OH0122173, which discharges to West Fork. EPA’s file records it issued April 4, 2012 and expiring April 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	BLACK RIVER LOCAL SCHOOLS
Permittee as filed	Black River Local Schools
NPDES ID	OH0122173
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
Program	Biosolids
Issued	April 4, 2012
Expiration date	April 30, 2017
Address	Sullivan, OH 44880
Receiving water	West Fork
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Headwaters West Fork East Branch Black River (HUC 041100010302)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
13With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	123	119	December 31, 2016	925% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	73	69	October 31, 2021	546% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	36	32	November 30, 2021	107% over the limit
pH	2	26	24	February 28, 2011
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	0	10	10	October 31, 2008	99,999% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF	2	9	7	October 31, 2019	1,821% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	1	May 31, 2011	10% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	4	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	2	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	2	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	2	0
Turbidity [severity]	2	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	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 OH0122173.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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.