Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0106496
KNOTT'S BERRY FARM, Buena Park, CA: NPDES CA0106496 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 132Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
KNOTT'S BERRY FARM holds NPDES permit CA0106496, which discharges to Tidal Prism Of San Gabriel River. EPA’s file records it issued February 29, 2008 and expiring February 1, 2013. 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 | KNOTT'S BERRY FARM |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | KNOTT'S BERRY FARM |
| NPDES ID | CA0106496 |
| 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 | February 29, 2008 |
| Expiration date | February 1, 2013 |
| Address | Buena Park, CA 90620 |
| Receiving water | TIDAL PRISM OF SAN GABRIEL RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Coyote Creek-San Gabriel River (HUC 180701060606) |
| SIC | 7996 – Amusement Parks |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler CAD981394448 |
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
- 132Pollutants on file
- 132Under a numeric limit
- 3With a violation of any kind
- 3With 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 132 are shown.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oil and grease | 6 | 47 | 47 | April 30, 2026 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 38 | 38 | August 31, 2024 | 99,999% over the limit |
| pH | 12 | 1 | 1 | July 31, 2021 | |
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Asbestos | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Thallium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, trivalent [as Cr] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Antimony, total recoverable | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dichlorobromomethane | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon tetrachloride | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bromoform | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dibromochloromethane | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chloroform | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| .delta.-BHC | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthylene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acenaphthene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrolein | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Acrylonitrile | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Anthracene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[b]fluoranthene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Butyl benzyl phthalate | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorobenzene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chrysene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Diethyl phthalate | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dimethyl phthalate | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1,2-Diphenylhydrazine | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Endosulfan sulfate | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| .beta.-Endosulfan | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| .alpha.-Endosulfan | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Endrin aldehyde | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluoranthene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Fluorene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobutadiene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hexachloroethane | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Isophorone | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Methyl bromide [Bromomethane] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Methyl chloride [Chloromethane] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Methylene chloride | 6 | 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 CA0106496.
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.