Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0082546

SIERRA CONSERVATION CENTER WTP, Tuolumne, CA: NPDES CA0082546 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
20Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SIERRA CONSERVATION CENTER WTP, held by CALIF DEPT OF CORRECTIONS, holds NPDES permit CA0082546, which discharges to Shotgun Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 14, 2007 and expiring September 1, 2012. 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	SIERRA CONSERVATION CENTER WTP
Permittee as filed	CALIF DEPT OF CORRECTIONS
NPDES ID	CA0082546
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	September 14, 2007
Expiration date	September 1, 2012
Address	Tuolumne, CA 95327
Receiving water	SHOTGUN CREEK
Subwatershed	Peoria Creek-Stanislaus River (HUC 180400100608)
SIC	9223 – Correctional Institutions
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler CAD981390115

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

184Pollutants on file
20Under a numeric limit
167With 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 184 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind
Bromoform	1	1
Chloroform	1	1
.gamma.-BHC	1	1
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	1
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	0	1
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	0	1
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	1
Cyanide, total [as CN]	0	1
Sulfite [as SO3]	0	1
Sulfide, total [as S]	0	1
Chloride [as Cl]	0	1
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	0	1
Asbestos	0	1
Fluoride, total [as F]	0	1
Arsenic, total recoverable	0	1
Selenium, total recoverable	0	1
Thallium, total recoverable	0	1
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]	0	1
Barium, total recoverable	0	1
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]	0	1
Nickel, total recoverable	0	1
Silver total recoverable	0	1
Zinc, total recoverable	0	1
Cadmium, total recoverable	0	1
Lead, total recoverable	0	1
Chromium, total recoverable	0	1
Copper, total recoverable	0	1
Molybdenum, total recoverable	0	1
Antimony, total recoverable	0	1
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol	0	1
Tributyltin	0	1
Diquat	0	1
Methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE]	0	1
Dinoseb	0	1
Carbon tetrachloride	0	1
1,2-Dichloroethane	0	1
Toluene	0	1
Benzene	0	1
.delta.-BHC	0	1
Acenaphthylene	0	1
Acenaphthene	0	1
Acrolein	0	1
Acrylonitrile	0	1
Anthracene	0	1
Benzo[b]fluoranthene	0	1
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	0	1
Benzo[a]pyrene	0	1
Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether	0	1
Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane	0	1
Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether	0	1
Butyl benzyl phthalate	0	1
Chlorobenzene	0	1
Chrysene	0	1
Diethyl phthalate	0	1
Dimethyl phthalate	0	1
1,2-Diphenylhydrazine	0	1
Endosulfan sulfate	0	1
.beta.-Endosulfan	0	1
.alpha.-Endosulfan	0	1
Endrin aldehyde	0	1

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CA0082546.

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 CA0082546.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES CA0082546 for the Sierra Conservation Center WTP in Tuolumne, CA, held by the California Department of Corrections, which discharges to Shotgun Creek. The permit is listed as administratively continued and a minor discharger, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it was issued September 14, 2007 with an expiration date of September 1, 2012, with the watershed given as HUC 180400100608.