Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0081337

BALSAM MEADOWS HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT, EASTWOOD POWERHOUSE, Fresno, CA: NPDES CA0081337 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
137Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BALSAM MEADOWS HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT, EASTWOOD POWERHOUSE, held by SOUTHERN CALIF EDISON CO, holds NPDES permit CA0081337, which discharges to Balsam Meadow Impoundment,Shaver La. EPA’s file records it issued June 24, 2005 and expiring June 23, 2010. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	BALSAM MEADOWS HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT, EASTWOOD POWERHOUSE
Permittee as filed	SOUTHERN CALIF EDISON CO
NPDES ID	CA0081337
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	June 24, 2005
Expiration date	June 23, 2010
Address	Fresno, CA 93664
Receiving water	BALSAM MEADOW IMPOUNDMENT,SHAVER LA
Subwatershed	Lower Big Creek (HUC 180400060904)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

137Pollutants on file
137Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
4With 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 137 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Arsenic, total recoverable	2	18	18	September 30, 2018	350% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable	2	22	16	September 30, 2018	4,114% over the limit
Lead, total recoverable	2	2	2	January 31, 2018	1,875% over the limit
Zinc, total recoverable	2	1	1	January 31, 2018	28% over the limit
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	2	1	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	0	0
pH	6	0	0
TU Static 4 Day Chronic Raphidocelis subcapitata (formerly Selenastrum capricornutum)	6	0	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	6	0	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas	6	0	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	3	0	0
Specific conductance	3	0	0
Solids, total suspended	3	0	0
Solids, settleable	2	0	0
Cyanide, total [as CN]	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
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	0	0
Antimony, total recoverable	2	0	0
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol	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
Toluene	2	0	0
Benzene	2	0	0
.delta.-BHC	2	0	0
Acenaphthylene	2	0	0
Acenaphthene	2	0	0
Acrolein	2	0	0
Acrylonitrile	2	0	0
Anthracene	2	0	0
Benzo[b]fluoranthene	2	0	0
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	2	0	0
Benzo[a]pyrene	2	0	0
Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether	2	0	0
Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane	2	0	0
Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether	2	0	0
Butyl benzyl phthalate	2	0	0
Chlorobenzene	2	0	0
Chrysene	2	0	0
Diethyl phthalate	2	0	0
Dimethyl phthalate	2	0	0
1,2-Diphenylhydrazine	2	0	0
Endosulfan sulfate	2	0	0
.beta.-Endosulfan	2	0	0
.alpha.-Endosulfan	2	0	0
Endrin aldehyde	2	0	0
Ethylbenzene	2	0	0
Fluoranthene	2	0	0
Fluorene	2	0	0
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene	2	0	0
Hexachlorobutadiene	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 CA0081337.

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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