NPDES Operator Information

Several online resources are available for wastewater treatment plant operators.  Please see the links below for more information on the particular resource you are interested in. For information on Discharge Monitoring Report forms (DMRs, also known as Monthly Operation Reports or MORs), please see the DMR Forms page. For more information on operator certification, please see the DNR Water/ Wastewater Operator Certification page. For a list of permit delay reasons (why a permit has not yet been reissued), or to find out which permit writer is working on the reissuance of a certain permit, please see the Current NPDES Permits page.

To complete a permit application online, please see the WWPIE Online Permit System page.

To obtain paper permit application forms and instructions for individual NPDES permits, please see the NPDES Application Forms page.

For information on how to sample treated effluent for bacteria, and on how to calculate a geometric mean, see the Bacteria Sampling page.

For information on significant industrial users and treatment agreement requirements and forms, see the Treatment Agreements page.