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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0134619

RITTMAN WTP, Sterling, OH: NPDES OH0134619 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RITTMAN WTP, held by Rittman, City of, holds NPDES permit OH0134619, which discharges to Steele Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 6, 2017 and expiring April 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 filedRITTMAN WTP
Permittee as filedRittman, City of
NPDES IDOH0134619
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
ProgramCombined sewer overflows
IssuedApril 6, 2017
Expiration dateApril 30, 2022
AddressSterling, OH 44276
Receiving waterSteele Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedTommy Run-Chippewa Creek (HUC 050400010205)

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
Arsenic, total [as As]44216September 30, 2023114% over the limit
Solids, total suspended4479June 30, 201324,604% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual066June 30, 201343,795% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]055December 31, 201488% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]0164March 31, 2013167% over the limit
E. coli, MTEC-MF033June 30, 2013459% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]0142December 31, 201311,461% over the limit
pH251December 31, 2008
Iron, suspended240
Manganese, suspended240
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant240
Biosolids weight indluding admixtures220

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 10, 2025Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid PermitST6
December 5, 2022Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal ApplicationST6

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.