Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FL0025526
SAM O PURDOM GEN STATION, Saint Marks, FL: NPDES FL0025526 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 23Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
SAM O PURDOM GEN STATION, held by City of Tallahassee, holds NPDES permit FL0025526, which discharges to St Marks R Class Iii Fresh Wbid 793b. EPA’s file records it issued October 27, 2015 and expiring October 26, 2020. 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 filed | SAM O PURDOM GEN STATION |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | City of Tallahassee |
| NPDES ID | FL0025526 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | October 27, 2015 |
| Expiration date | October 26, 2020 |
| Issuing agency | Florida Department of Environmental Protection |
| Address | Saint Marks, FL 32355 |
| Receiving water | St Marks R Class III Fresh WBID 793B |
| Subwatershed | Lower St. Marks River (HUC 031200011002) |
| NAICS | 221111 – Hydroelectric Power Generation |
| SIC | 4911 – Electric Services |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler FLD000798892; ICIS-AIR source FL0000001212900001 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 27Pollutants on file
- 23Under a numeric limit
- 20With a violation of any kind
- 5With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 6 | 4 | March 31, 2016 | 560% over the limit |
| Copper, total recoverable | 8 | 7 | 3 | April 30, 2024 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| Zinc, total recoverable | 8 | 5 | 1 | August 31, 2006 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 2 | 3 | 1 | November 30, 2024 | 31% over the limit |
| Iron, total recoverable | 2 | 2 | 1 | June 30, 2007 | 2,450% over the limit |
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 3 | 24 | 0 | ||
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia) | 3 | 24 | 0 | ||
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia | 3 | 24 | 0 | ||
| IC25 Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Chrpimephales | 3 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 8 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, trivalent total recoverable | 8 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
| LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Cyprinella leedsi | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 6 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Duration of discharge | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, free available | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate | 2 | 0 | 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 FL0025526.
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 October 14, 2026.