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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WY0024414

ELK BASIN GAS PLANT, (Unknown City), WY: NPDES WY0024414 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ELK BASIN GAS PLANT, held by Contango Resources, INC, holds NPDES permit WY0024414. EPA’s file records it issued March 12, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedELK BASIN GAS PLANT
Permittee as filedContango Resources, INC
NPDES IDWY0024414
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
IssuedMarch 12, 2018
Expiration dateJune 30, 2023
Issuing agencyWDEQ
Address(Unknown City), WY
SubwatershedUpper Cottonwood Creek (HUC 100700060703)

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
Specific conductance310
Sulfate, total [as SO4]310
Chloride310
pH1200
Sulfide, total [as S]600
Flow600
Produced water, oil and grease300

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WY0024414.

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
January 18, 2023Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violationST6

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 15, 2026.