Nebraska NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 198 municipal wastewater permits · issued by DWEE
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Nebraska?
Search this page by permit number or plant name for a municipal plant’s permit status, expiry date and violations. For the official file, search DWEE’s public notices or DWEE’s public records search. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 752 industrial permits in Nebraska are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
175
Administratively continued
19
Expired
3
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
139
Where to find official Nebraska NPDES records
Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment (DWEE) runs the NPDES program in Nebraska under authorization from EPA Region 7. It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. DWEE website ↗
permit documents
Open the NPDES/NPP section and click the applicant: the notice shows the NPDES number and facility ID (FID) and links the facility’s documents.
documents
Searches DWEE’s documents by facility ID (FID) and program, returning up to 500 of the most recent. FIDs are on public notices and the enforcement list, or DWEE’s records staff can look one up.
permits · DMRs · inspections · violations · enforcement
EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online. Search water facilities by permit number, name or city; the Detailed Facility Report lists inspections, violations and enforcement actions, and Effluent Charts plot monitoring results against the permit limits.
- Permit numbers
- NPDES numbers follow EPA’s format (NE0043311); DWEE files its records under a facility ID (FID), such as 57863.
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through EPA’s NetDMR.
- Violations and enforcement
- DWEE’s enforcement actions ↗
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Nebraska
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 752 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Nebraska (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 52 of them major dischargers, plus 0 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 65 of the individual permits recorded at least one effluent violation in the last three years.
| Facility | Permit | Status | Expires | Effluent violations |
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Unlock 752 industrial permits in Nebraska
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Nebraska by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Nebraska: permits in force (effective or administratively continued) held by facilities EPA does not class as publicly owned treatment works or federal facilities. Source: EPA ICIS-NPDES via Klarifi, October 2026.
Violations at Nebraska wastewater plants
139 of the 198 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 158 had a violation of any kind, including late or missing monitoring reports. Each plant’s page shows its own count. EPA’s enforcement records list 39 formal cases naming Nebraska wastewater plants, 10 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $1.1 million in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in Nebraska →
Permit renewals by year
An NPDES permit runs for five years. To keep discharging, a plant must apply for renewal at least 180 days before the expiry date, and the renewed permit usually arrives with tighter effluent limits, new monitoring requirements or a compliance schedule. That is why the year a permit expires is the year a plant starts budgeting for upgrades: nutrient removal, disinfection, capacity or controls.
2029: 27 permits
2030: 32 permits
2031: 22 permits
Largest permit holders in Nebraska
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Island Wastewater Trtmnt | Grand Island | 10.49 | 25 | NE0043702 | Administratively continued | Dec 2024 | 11 |
| Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Plant | Omaha | 21.78 | — | NEL036358 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 0 |
| Fremont Wastewater Treatment | Fremont | 5.32 | 10.71 | NE0031381 | Effective | Sep 2029 | 0 |
| City Of Columbus - Wastewater Treatment Facility | Columbus | 3.02 | 5.2 | NE0035025 | Effective | Jun 2030 | 4 |
| Beatrice Wastewater Treatment | Beatrice | 1.13 | 5 | NE0020915 | Effective | Jun 2028 | 9 |
| Kearney Wastewater Treatment | Kearney | 3.57 | 4.8 | NE0052647 | Effective | Jun 2028 | 4 |
| Hastings Pollution Control Ctr | Hastings | 3.25 | — | NEL038946 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 0 |
| Crete WWTF | Crete | 0.7 | 2.93 | NE0034304 | Effective | Mar 2029 | 2 |
| City Of Norfolk Waste Facility | Norfolk | 2.91 | — | NEL033421 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 4 |
| Mccook Wastewater Treatment Facility | Mccook | 0.41 | 2.63 | NE0021504 | Effective | Jun 2027 | 3 |
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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 12, 2026.
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