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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA8000015

SAN BERNARDINO GEOTHERMAL HEATING PROJECT, San Bernardino, CA: NPDES CA8000015 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SAN BERNARDINO GEOTHERMAL HEATING PROJECT, held by San Bernardino, City of, holds NPDES permit CA8000015, which discharges to Trib To R4 & R5 Of Santa Ana River. EPA’s file records it issued June 6, 2008 and expiring June 1, 2013. 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 filedSAN BERNARDINO GEOTHERMAL HEATING PROJECT
Permittee as filedSan Bernardino, City of
NPDES IDCA8000015
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 6, 2008
Expiration dateJune 1, 2013
AddressSan Bernardino, CA 92402
Receiving waterTRIB TO R4 & R5 OF SANTA ANA RIVER
SubwatershedWarm Creek-Santa Anna River (HUC 180702030508)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 135 are shown.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit1030
pH1800
Arsenic, total recoverable1000
Selenium, total recoverable1000
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant1000
Mercury, total recoverable1000
Cyanide, total [as CN]900
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]900
Sodium, total recoverable900
Chloride [as Cl]900
Fluoride, total [as F]900
Thallium, total recoverable900
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]900
Boron, total recoverable900
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]900
Chromium, trivalent [as Cr]900
Nickel, total recoverable900
Silver total recoverable900
Zinc, total recoverable900
Cadmium, total recoverable900
Lead, total recoverable900
Copper, total recoverable900
Antimony, total recoverable900
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol900
Dichlorobromomethane900
Carbon tetrachloride900
1,2-Dichloroethane900
Bromoform900
Dibromochloromethane900
Chloroform900
Toluene900
Benzene900
.delta.-BHC900
Acenaphthylene900
Acenaphthene900
Acrolein900
Acrylonitrile900
Anthracene900
Benzo[b]fluoranthene900
Benzo[k]fluoranthene900
Benzo[a]pyrene900
Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether900
Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane900
Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether900
Butyl benzyl phthalate900
Chlorobenzene900
Chrysene900
Diethyl phthalate900
Dimethyl phthalate900
1,2-Diphenylhydrazine900
Endosulfan sulfate900
.beta.-Endosulfan900
.alpha.-Endosulfan900
Endrin aldehyde900
Ethylbenzene900
Fluoranthene900
Fluorene900
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene900
Hexachlorobutadiene900
Hexachloroethane900

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CA8000015.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CA8000015.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES CA8000015 for the San Bernardino Geothermal Heating Project in San Bernardino, CA, held by San Bernardino, City of, which discharges to Trib To R4 & R5 Of Santa Ana River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 135 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.