Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0053392

ROYAL CATERING, El Monte, CA: NPDES CA0053392 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
167Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ROYAL CATERING, held by Royal Catering Company, holds NPDES permit CA0053392, which discharges to San Gabriel River. EPA’s file records it issued March 3, 2011 and expiring February 10, 2016. 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	ROYAL CATERING
Permittee as filed	Royal Catering Company
NPDES ID	CA0053392
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
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	March 3, 2011
Expiration date	February 10, 2016
Address	El Monte, CA 91732
Receiving water	SAN GABRIEL RIVER
Subwatershed	Alhambra Wash-Rio Hondo (HUC 180701050303)
SIC	2099 – Food Preparations

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

170Pollutants on file
167Under a numeric limit
15With a violation of any kind
7With 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 170 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
E. coli	2	20	20	December 31, 2021	99,999% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable	2	15	11	December 31, 2019	614% over the limit
pH	4	10	6	December 31, 2019
%Effect Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	0	4	4	December 31, 2021	40% over the limit
%Effect Static 4 Day Chronic Raphidocelis subcapitata	0	2	2	June 30, 2022	20% over the limit
Lead, total recoverable	6	9	1	December 31, 2018	172% over the limit
Solids, settleable	2	1	1	June 30, 2019	233% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	4	0
Solids, total suspended	4	4	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	4	4	0
Oil & Grease	0	4	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	2	0
Turbidity	2	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	4	0	0
Chloride [as Cl]	4	0	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	4	0	0
Boron, total recoverable	4	0	0
Oil and grease	4	0	0
Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE]	4	0	0
Phenols	4	0	0
tert-Butyl alcohol [TBA]	4	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	4	0	0
Hydrocarbons, petroleum	4	0	0
% Survival Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	4	0	0
Cyanide, total [as CN]	2	0	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	2	0	0
Arsenic, total recoverable	2	0	0
Selenium, total recoverable	2	0	0
Thallium, total recoverable	2	0	0
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]	2	0	0
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]	2	0	0
Chromium, trivalent [as Cr]	2	0	0
Nickel, total recoverable	2	0	0
Silver total recoverable	2	0	0
Zinc, total recoverable	2	0	0
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	0	0
Antimony, total recoverable	2	0	0
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9-Octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
1,2,3,7,8-Pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,7,8-Hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
1,2,3,6,7,8-Hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
1,2,3,7,8,9-Hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
1,2,3,7,8-Pentachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
2,3,4,7,8-Pentachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,7,8-Hexachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,6,7,8-Hexachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,7,8,9-Hexachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
2,3,4,6,7,8-Hexachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,6,7,8-Heptachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,7,8,9-Heptachlorodibenzofuran	2	0	0
1,2,3,4,6,7,8-Heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin	2	0	0
Dichlorobromomethane	2	0	0
Carbon tetrachloride	2	0	0
1,2-Dichloroethane	2	0	0
Bromoform	2	0	0
Dibromochloromethane	2	0	0
Chloroform	2	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 CA0053392.

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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