Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0024571
FAIRHAVEN POWER FACILITY, Humboldt County, CA: NPDES CA0024571 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 162Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
FAIRHAVEN POWER FACILITY, held by DG Fairhaven Power, LLC, holds NPDES permit CA0024571, which discharges to Pacific Ocean. EPA’s file records it issued April 26, 2012 and expiring June 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 filed | FAIRHAVEN POWER FACILITY |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | DG Fairhaven Power, LLC |
| NPDES ID | CA0024571 |
| 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 | April 26, 2012 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2017 |
| Address | Humboldt County, CA 95564 |
| Receiving water | Pacific Ocean |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Humboldt Bay (HUC 180101020605) |
| SIC | 4911 – Electric Services |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler CAL000423888; ICIS-AIR source CANCU0000602300012 |
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
- 175Pollutants on file
- 162Under a numeric limit
- 175With a violation of any kind
- 2With 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 175 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine, free available | 2 | 40 | 6 | February 29, 2020 | 300% over the limit |
| pH | 6 | 108 | 2 | September 30, 2019 | |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 6 | 102 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 7 | 94 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 3 | 51 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 3 | 32 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total suspended | 2 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 21 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease | 2 | 20 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Dibromochloromethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Acrolein | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Acrylonitrile | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chlorobenzene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Dimethyl phthalate | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Diphenylhydrazine | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobutadiene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Isophorone | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Methylene chloride | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodi-N-propylamine | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodiphenylamine | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodimethylamine [NDMA] | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nitrobenzene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Tetrachloroethylene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1,4-Dichlorobenzene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dinitrotoluene | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dinitrophenol | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP] | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Di-n-butyl phthalate | 3 | 8 | 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 CA0024571.
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.