Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COR901022

WESTERN AUTO RECYCLING COMMERCE CITY, Commerce City, CO: NPDES COR901022 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WESTERN AUTO RECYCLING COMMERCE CITY, held by Western Auto Recycling, holds NPDES permit COR901022, which discharges to O'Brian Canal - Denver Hudson Canal. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2012 and expiring June 30, 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 filed	WESTERN AUTO RECYCLING COMMERCE CITY
Permittee as filed	Western Auto Recycling
NPDES ID	COR901022
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
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	June 26, 2012
Expiration date	June 30, 2017
Address	Commerce City, CO 80022
Receiving water	O'Brian Canal - Denver Hudson Canal
Subwatershed	City of Thornton-South Platte River (HUC 101900030402)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler COR000212266

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
8With 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
Solids, total suspended	1	33
Iron, total [as Fe]	1	32
Lead, total [as Pb]	1	32
Aluminum, total [as Al]	1	32
Arsenic, total recoverable	0	1
Iron, total recoverable	0	1
Aluminum, total recoverable	0	1
Lead, potentially dissolvd	0	1

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COR901022.

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 COR901022.

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 EPA-derived register page covers NPDES permit COR901022, held by Western Auto Recycling for its Commerce City, CO facility, which discharges to O'Brian Canal - Denver Hudson Canal. The permit was issued June 26, 2012 and expired June 30, 2017, and is listed as administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.