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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WI0070785

NORTHERN STATES POWER FRENCH I, La Crosse, WI: NPDES WI0070785 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NORTHERN STATES POWER FRENCH I, held by NSP FRENCH ISLAND, D/B/A XCEL, holds NPDES permit WI0070785, which discharges to Mississippi R Vi. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2010 and expiring September 30, 2015. 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 filedNORTHERN STATES POWER FRENCH I
Permittee as filedNSP FRENCH ISLAND, D/B/A XCEL
NPDES IDWI0070785
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
IssuedSeptember 29, 2010
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2015
AddressLa Crosse, WI 54603
Receiving waterMISSISSIPPI R VI
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCity of La Crosse-Mississippi River (HUC 070400060502)

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
Copper, total recoverable02240
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit51120
Mercury, total recoverable020
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1400

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WI0070785.

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 WI0070785.

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.