Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG588075

BAIR RANCH REST AREA, Garfield County, CO: NPDES COG588075 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BAIR RANCH REST AREA, held by Colorado Department of Transportation, holds NPDES permit COG588075, which discharges to Colorado River. EPA’s file records it issued July 12, 2005 and expiring May 31, 2010. 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 filed	BAIR RANCH REST AREA
Permittee as filed	Colorado Department of Transportation
NPDES ID	COG588075
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	July 12, 2005
Expiration date	May 31, 2010
Address	Garfield County, CO
Receiving water	COLORADO RIVER
Subwatershed	Glenwood Canyon (HUC 140100011604)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
2With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	27	25	April 30, 2021	676% over the limit
pH	4	14	12	August 31, 2007
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	6	0
Solids, total suspended	6	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	4	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	2	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	2	0
Oil and grease	1	1	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	1	0
Oil and grease visual	1	1	0
Solids, total dissolved	4	0	0
E. coli	2	0	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	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 COG588075.

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.

This public-records page covers the NPDES permit COG588075 held by Colorado Department of Transportation for BAIR RANCH REST AREA in Garfield County, CO, which discharges to COLORADO RIVER in the Glenwood Canyon (HUC 140100011604) subwatershed. The permit is administratively continued, carries a minor discharger class, and was issued July 12, 2005 with an expiration date of May 31, 2010. The file lists 13 pollutants on file, 10 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.