Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0024481
BODEGA FARMS, Sonoma County, CA: NPDES CA0024481 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 89Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BODEGA FARMS, held by OCEAN FARMS, INC., holds NPDES permit CA0024481, which discharges to Pacific Ocean. EPA’s file records it issued July 24, 2008 and expiring September 12, 2013. 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 | BODEGA FARMS |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | OCEAN FARMS, INC. |
| NPDES ID | CA0024481 |
| 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 | July 24, 2008 |
| Expiration date | September 12, 2013 |
| Address | Sonoma County, CA 94923 |
| Receiving water | PACIFIC OCEAN |
| SIC | 0273 – Animal Aquaculture |
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
- 89Pollutants on file
- 89Under a numeric limit
- 5With a violation of any kind
- 0With 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 89 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||
| pH | 4 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 3 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Solids, Total Suspended, Net Value | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Solids, Settleable, Net | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Radioactivity | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, trivalent [as Cr] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tributyltin | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons [PAHs] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dibromochloromethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 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 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dimethyl phthalate | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Diphenylhydrazine | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobutadiene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Isophorone | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Methylene chloride | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodi-N-propylamine | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodiphenylamine | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodimethylamine [NDMA] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrobenzene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tetrachloroethylene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,4-Dichlorobenzene | 1 | 0 | 0 |
EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CA0024481.
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 CA0024481.
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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