Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG130015

BUENA VISTA UNIT, Chaffee County, CO: NPDES COG130015 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BUENA VISTA UNIT, held by Colorado Correctional Industries, holds NPDES permit COG130015, which discharges to Arkansas River. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2011 and expiring March 31, 2016. 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	BUENA VISTA UNIT
Permittee as filed	Colorado Correctional Industries
NPDES ID	COG130015
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 1, 2011
Expiration date	March 31, 2016
Address	Chaffee County, CO 81211
Receiving water	Arkansas River
Subwatershed	Maxwell Creek-Arkansas River (HUC 110200010702)
SIC	0273 – Animal Aquaculture

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With 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.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	38
LC50 Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	36
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	36
pH	2	33
Solids, total suspended	2	32
Oil and grease	1	16
Oil and grease visual	1	16
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	5
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	4

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COG130015.

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 COG130015.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES COG130015 for BUENA VISTA UNIT in Chaffee County, CO, held by Colorado Correctional Industries and discharging to the Arkansas River, with a permit status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class of 9. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.