Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0081574
HAMMONTON GOLD VILLAGE WWTP, Smartville, CA: NPDES CA0081574 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 161Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
HAMMONTON GOLD VILLAGE WWTP, held by River Highlands CSD, County of Yuba, and Gold Village Land Development LLC, holds NPDES permit CA0081574, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary Of Sanford Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 7, 2017 and expiring May 31, 2022. 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 | HAMMONTON GOLD VILLAGE WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | River Highlands CSD, County of Yuba, and Gold Village Land Development LLC |
| NPDES ID | CA0081574 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | April 7, 2017 |
| Expiration date | May 31, 2022 |
| Address | Smartville, CA 95977 |
| Receiving water | UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF SANFORD CREEK |
| Subwatershed | Woods Creek-Yuba River (HUC 180201251002) |
| SIC | 4952 – 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
- 196Pollutants on file
- 161Under a numeric limit
- 186With 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 196 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 3 | 13 | 12 | December 31, 2021 | 646% over the limit |
| Coliform, total general | 2 | 10 | 10 | June 30, 2025 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Diazinon + Chlorpyrifos | 0 | 2 | 2 | December 31, 2025 | 430% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 21 | 1 | March 31, 2017 | 75% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 4 | 20 | 1 | December 31, 2017 | 525% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 4 | 1 | January 31, 2017 | 550% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 2 | 1 | January 31, 2017 | 558% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 6 | 15 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N] | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Specific conductance | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| pH | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide, total [as S] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chloride [as Cl] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate, total [as SO4] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Asbestos | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Boron, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Aluminum, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Manganese, total recoverable | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bromoform | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Dibromochloromethane | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| .delta.-BHC | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthylene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Acrolein | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Acrylonitrile | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Anthracene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[b]fluoranthene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Butyl benzyl phthalate | 1 | 1 | 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 CA0081574.
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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