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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0005241

DRY CREEK RANCHERIA WWTP, Sonoma County, CA: NPDES CA0005241 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DRY CREEK RANCHERIA WWTP, held by DRY CREEK BAND OF POMO INDIANS, holds NPDES permit CA0005241, which discharges to Russian River. EPA’s file records it issued September 25, 2012 and expiring September 30, 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 filedDRY CREEK RANCHERIA WWTP
Permittee as filedDRY CREEK BAND OF POMO INDIANS
NPDES IDCA0005241
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 25, 2012
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2017
AddressSonoma County, CA 95441
Receiving waterRUSSIAN RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSausal Creek-Russian River (HUC 180101100602)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 144 are shown.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C61200
Solids, total suspended61200
Turbidity2400
Conductivity2400
Solids, settleable2400
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]2400
Oil and grease2400
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2400
Chlorine, total residual2400
Solids, total dissolved2400
Coliform, total general2400
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]1200
BOD, 5-day, percent removal1200
Solids, suspended percent removal1200
TU Static 4 Day Chronic Raphidocelis subcapitata (formerly Selenastrum capricornutum)200
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia200
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas200
Cyanide, total [as CN]100
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]100
Asbestos100
Arsenic, total recoverable100
Selenium, total recoverable100
Thallium, total recoverable100
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]100
Nickel, total recoverable100
Silver total recoverable100
Zinc, total recoverable100
Cadmium, total recoverable100
Lead, total recoverable100
Chromium, total recoverable100
Copper, total recoverable100
Antimony, total recoverable100
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol100
Dichlorobromomethane100
Carbon tetrachloride100
1,2-Dichloroethane100
Bromoform100
Dibromochloromethane100
Chloroform100
Toluene100
Benzene100
.delta.-BHC100
Acenaphthylene100
Acenaphthene100
Acrolein100
Acrylonitrile100
Anthracene100
Benzo[b]fluoranthene100
Benzo[k]fluoranthene100
Benzo[a]pyrene100
Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether100
Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane100
Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether100
Butyl benzyl phthalate100
Chlorobenzene100
Chrysene100
Diethyl phthalate100
Dimethyl phthalate100
1,2-Diphenylhydrazine100
Endosulfan sulfate100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CA0005241.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CA0005241.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit CA0005241 for the DRY CREEK RANCHERIA WWTP in Sonoma County, CA, held by DRY CREEK BAND OF POMO INDIANS and discharging to the RUSSIAN RIVER, with permit status listed as administratively continued. The figures listed are 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued September 25, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. Status and dates reflect EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.