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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CAU000698

RALPH MEST AND SONS, Gardena, CA: NPDES CAU000698 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RALPH MEST AND SONS, held by Ralph Mest and Sons, holds NPDES permit CAU000698. 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.

What the register holds for RALPH MEST AND SONS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its its address in Gardena, California. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES CAU000698.

Identity

Facility as filedRALPH MEST AND SONS
Permittee as filedRalph Mest and Sons
NPDES IDCAU000698
Permit statusNot needed
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
AddressGardena, CA 90247
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Dominguez Channel (HUC 180701060102)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler CAL000263637

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES CAU000698.

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 CAU000698.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

Ralph Mest and Sons is one of 180 storm water industrial permits in Los Angeles County on EPA's NPDES register, and it sits among 45 NPDES permits in the Lower Dominguez Channel subwatershed. Among those 180 county permits, 16.1% have a violation on file, and this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances.