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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES COS000005

COLO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION, Denver, CO: NPDES COS000005 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION, held by CDOT, holds NPDES permit COS000005. EPA’s file records it issued December 8, 2006 and expiring January 31, 2012. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedCOLO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION
Permittee as filedCDOT
NPDES IDCOS000005
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramLarge municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedDecember 8, 2006
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2012
AddressDenver, CO
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
Subwatershed101900020904 (HUC 101900020904)
SIC9511 – Air, Water, & Solid Waste Management

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

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
Solids, total suspended040
Magnesium, total recoverable040
Sodium, total recoverable040
Magnesium, dissolved [as Mg]040
Chloride [as Cl]040
Oil and grease040
Flow, maximum during 24 hr period040
Chromium, dissolved [as Cr]030
Chromium, total recoverable030
Conductivity020
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]020
Phosphorus, total [as P]020
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]020
Arsenic, total recoverable020
Selenium, total recoverable020
Zinc, total recoverable020
Cadmium, total recoverable020
Copper, total recoverable020
Zinc, potentially dissolved020
Copper, potentially dissolved020
Arsenic, potentially dissolved020
Cadmium, potentially dissolvd020
Manganese, potentially dissolvd020
Selenium, potentially dissolvd020
Manganese, total recoverable020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES COS000005.

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 COS000005.

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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What this page shows

This EPA public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES COS000005, held by CDOT (Colo Dept of Transportation) in Denver, CO, with an administratively continued status and a Major discharger class. The permit was issued December 8, 2006 and expired January 31, 2012, and the page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, out of 25 pollutants on file.

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