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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG501945

BENSON BROTHERS RED SHALE PIT, Cedaredge, CO: NPDES COG501945 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BENSON BROTHERS RED SHALE PIT, held by Benson Brothers, holds NPDES permit COG501945, which discharges to Unnamed Tributary To Ward Creek - Ward Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 21, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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.

What the register holds for BENSON BROTHERS RED SHALE PIT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Cedaredge, Colorado, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES COG501945.

Identity

Facility as filedBENSON BROTHERS RED SHALE PIT
Permittee as filedBenson Brothers
NPDES IDCOG501945
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 21, 2017
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2021
AddressCedaredge, CO 81413
Receiving waterunnamed tributary to Ward Creek - Ward Creek
SubwatershedWard Creek (HUC 140200050108)
SIC1429 – Crushed And Broken Stone

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES COG501945.

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 COG501945.

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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