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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SDG860045

WATERTOWN, CITY OF (WTP), Watertown, SD: NPDES SDG860045 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WATERTOWN, CITY OF (WTP), held by WATERTOWN WTP, holds NPDES permit SDG860045, which discharges to Lake Kampeska, Lake Pelican, Big Si. EPA’s file records it issued December 20, 2018 and expiring September 30, 2021. 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 filedWATERTOWN, CITY OF (WTP)
Permittee as filedWATERTOWN WTP
NPDES IDSDG860045
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 20, 2018
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2021
Issuing agencySDDANR
AddressWatertown, SD 57201
Receiving waterLake Kampeska, Lake Pelican, Big Si
SubwatershedWillow Creek-Big Sioux River (HUC 101702010903)

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
pH233December 31, 2021
Temperature, water deg. centigrade100
Flow rate100
Solids, total suspended100
Floating solids, waste or visible foam-visual100
Chlorine, total residual100
Flow, total100
Duration of discharge100

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 SDG860045.

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.