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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SD0022179

GREGORY, CITY OF, Gregory, SD: NPDES SD0022179 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GREGORY, CITY OF, held by Gregory, City of, holds NPDES permit SD0022179, which discharges to Unnamed Trib. Of Ponca Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 14, 2014 and expiring March 31, 2019. 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 filedGREGORY, CITY OF
Permittee as filedGregory, City of
NPDES IDSD0022179
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 14, 2014
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2019
Issuing agencySDDENR
AddressGregory, SD 57533
Receiving waterUnnamed Trib. of Ponca Creek
SubwatershedLake Dolton-Ponca Creek (HUC 101500010104)

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]48710March 31, 2022823% over the limit
pH2858November 30, 2018
Solids, total suspended2817October 31, 201430% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general0491June 30, 200115% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade2760
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2760
Flow rate2740
Duration0210
Chlorine, total residual0210
Flow, total1160
Duration of discharge1150
Nitrogen, total [as N]060
Phosphorus, total [as P]060
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant040
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]230
Stream flow, estimated130
Oil & Grease030
Oil and grease visual020

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES SD0022179.

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.