Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0001465
CHEVRON ESTERO MARINE TERMINAL, Morro Bay, CA: NPDES CA0001465 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 101Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
CHEVRON ESTERO MARINE TERMINAL, held by Chevron Environmental Management Company, holds NPDES permit CA0001465, which discharges to Pacific Ocean. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2011 and expiring January 13, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | CHEVRON ESTERO MARINE TERMINAL |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Chevron Environmental Management Company |
| NPDES ID | CA0001465 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | December 1, 2011 |
| Expiration date | January 13, 2017 |
| Address | Morro Bay, CA 93442 |
| Receiving water | Pacific Ocean |
| SIC | 4612 – Crude Petroleum Pipelines |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler CAD000628875 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 102Pollutants on file
- 101Under a numeric limit
- 32With a violation of any kind
- 3With an effluent exceedance
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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 102 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 15 | 1 | December 31, 2019 | 62% over the limit |
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 6 | 4 | 1 | December 31, 2019 | 51% over the limit |
| Selenium, total recoverable | 6 | 4 | 1 | December 31, 2019 | 2% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 10 | 105 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 8 | 84 | 0 | ||
| Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE] | 6 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs] | 6 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 6 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 6 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Hydrocarbons, total petroleum | 6 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 4 | 42 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 6 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 6 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Chlorinated phenols | 6 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Phenolic compounds, unchlorinated | 6 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 2 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Xylenes [total], dry weight | 2 | 21 | 0 | ||
| pH | 4 | 14 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr] | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Endosulfan, total | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Endrin | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclohexane, total | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Radioactivity | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, trivalent [as Cr] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dichloromethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tributyltin | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrolein | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrylonitrile | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorobenzene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorodibromomethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dimethyl phthalate | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Diphenylhydrazine | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobutadiene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Isophorone | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodi-N-propylamine | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CA0001465.
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 October 14, 2026.