Fortune Bay Resort & Casino
1430 Bois Forte Rd., Tower, MN 55790 · Saint Louis County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- 0.78 MGD
- Design flow
- 0.83 MGD
- NPDES permit
- MN0061310
- Effective
- Permit expires
- January 2030
- Population served
- —
- CWNS 2022
Fortune Bay Resort & Casino is a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant in Tower, Saint Louis County, Minnesota treating an average of 0.78 million gallons per day against a permitted design capacity of 0.83 MGD. It discharges under NPDES permit MN0061310 (effective), which expires in January 2030, with 25 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 2 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in November 2023.
Treatment technology
Treatment structures and unit processes at Fortune Bay Resort & Casino.
Treatment structure data not yet analyzed for this facility.
Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 25
- Effluent violations
- 5
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Fortune Bay Resort & Casino in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 2
- 1 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $10,000
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 0
- none on record
Latest case · Nov 2023
LAKE VERMILION AOC
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Final Order No Penalty
EPA's description of the case:
“AOC under CWA for Lake Vermilion”
Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 05-2022-0337.
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Every action against Fortune Bay Resort & Casino with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
Decision-makers at Fortune Bay Resort & Casino.
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Fortune Bay Resort & Casino: frequently asked questions
Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 26, 2026; facility record last updated November 5, 2025.
Wastewater terms: POTW · MGD · NPDES permit · Inflow and infiltration · Oxidation ditch · Anaerobic digester · all terms