Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG589065

ELBERT WATER & SANITATION DIST WWTF, Elbert County, CO: NPDES COG589065 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ELBERT WATER & SANITATION DIST WWTF, held by Elbert Water Sanitation District, holds NPDES permit COG589065, which discharges to Kiowa Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 27, 2006 and expiring October 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	ELBERT WATER & SANITATION DIST WWTF
Permittee as filed	Elbert Water Sanitation District
NPDES ID	COG589065
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	November 27, 2006
Expiration date	October 31, 2010
Address	Elbert County, CO 80106
Receiving water	KIOWA CREEK
Subwatershed	Gopher Creek-Kiowa Creek (HUC 101900100103)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
8With 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
E. coli, thermotol, MF, MTEC	4	27	11	November 30, 2011	1,170% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	85	9	November 30, 2011	193% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	124	5	February 28, 2007	157% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	4	45	5	September 30, 2011	2,479% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	24	5	November 30, 2018	277% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	26	42	4	November 30, 2019	64% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	2	22	3	February 28, 2007	233% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	76	2	April 30, 2011	119% over the limit
pH	4	42	0
Plant capacity fact. percent of capacity	0	26	0
E. coli	0	26	0
Oil and grease	2	19	0
Oil and grease visual	2	19	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 COG589065.

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit COG589065 held by Elbert Water Sanitation District for the ELBERT WATER & SANITATION DIST WWTF in Elbert County, CO, which discharges to Kiowa Creek and is administratively continued. The page lists 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with 13 pollutants on file and 11 under a limit.