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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COG840022

ROUGHNECK UNIT, Arapahoe County, CO: NPDES COG840022 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ROUGHNECK UNIT, held by Renegade Oil and Gas Company LLC, holds NPDES permit COG840022, which discharges to Cottonwood Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 10, 2016 and expiring December 31, 2017. 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 filedROUGHNECK UNIT
Permittee as filedRenegade Oil and Gas Company LLC
NPDES IDCOG840022
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
IssuedAugust 10, 2016
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2017
AddressArapahoe County, CO 80103
Receiving waterCottonwood Creek
SubwatershedCottonwood Creek (HUC 101900130105)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
LC50 Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia111December 31, 201664% over the limit
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales promelas111December 31, 201647% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
pH200
Solids, total suspended200
Arsenic, total recoverable200
Selenium, total recoverable200
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]200
Nickel, total recoverable200
Zinc, total recoverable200
Cadmium, total recoverable200
Lead, total recoverable200
Copper, total recoverable200
Chromium, trivalent total recoverable200
Radium 226 + radium 228, total200
Priority Pollutant Results200
Solids, total dissolved200
Chromium, hexavalent tot recoverable200
Arsenic, potentially dissolved100
Oil and grease100
Toluene100
Benzene100
Ethylbenzene100
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]100

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 COG840022.

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 September 15, 2026.

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