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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FL0020141

SANFORD/NORTH WRF, Sanford, FL: NPDES FL0020141 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SANFORD/NORTH WRF, held by Sanford, City of, holds NPDES permit FL0020141, which discharges to St Johns R Class Iii Fresh Wbid 2893c. EPA’s file records it issued October 6, 2020 and expiring October 5, 2025. 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 filedSANFORD/NORTH WRF
Permittee as filedSanford, City of
NPDES IDFL0020141
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 6, 2020
Expiration dateOctober 5, 2025
Issuing agencyFlorida Department of Environmental Protection
AddressSanford, FL 32771
Receiving waterSt Johns R Class III Fresh WBID 2893C
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLake Monroe (HUC 030801011303)
Program components on fileBiosolids, POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]24135129February 28, 20262,268% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]219892April 30, 2026311% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant35454October 31, 2025507% over the limit
Solids, total suspended53939July 31, 2026230% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]213737October 31, 2025265% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]53030February 28, 2026224% over the limit
Phenolic compounds, total31717July 31, 20264,100% over the limit
Stream stage21313July 31, 202664% over the limit
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Cyprinella leedsi3117July 31, 202699,999% over the limit
E. coli266July 31, 2026906% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual233February 28, 20269,900% over the limit
Cyanide, total [as CN]133February 28, 2026467% over the limit
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia362February 28, 202699,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general322October 31, 2024260% over the limit
Lead, total recoverable022February 28, 200699,999% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable022February 28, 200699,999% over the limit
pH211January 31, 2006
Silver total recoverable111January 31, 2006157% over the limit
Cadmium, total recoverable011November 30, 200599,999% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]100
Dichlorobromomethane100
Chlorodibromomethane100
Rainfall100
Mercury, total recoverable100

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

The newest 50 of 58.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 26, 2025WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
July 30, 2024WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
December 9, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 27, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 18, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
April 7, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 23, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 21, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 21, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 17, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 16, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
February 27, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
January 22, 2023WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
December 26, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 17, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 20, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 10, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 9, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 2, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
November 1, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
October 31, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 5, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 4, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
October 3, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 29, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 29, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 15, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 14, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
August 27, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 6, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
April 11, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
April 3, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 24, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 21, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
February 16, 2022WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
December 27, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 14, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
November 22, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 24, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 20, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 19, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 19, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
August 17, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
May 5, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
March 27, 2021WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
December 4, 2020WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
October 12, 2020WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
October 7, 2020WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 20, 2020WW SSO - Overflow to Dry Land or Building BackupST6
September 20, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6

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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