Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FL0139912

FAU - HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, Fort Pierce, FL: NPDES FL0139912 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FAU - HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, held by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Inc., holds NPDES permit FL0139912, which discharges to Indian R Lagoon Class Ii Estuary Wbid 3190. EPA’s file records it issued August 10, 2016 and expiring December 4, 2021. 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	FAU - HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
Permittee as filed	Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Inc.
NPDES ID	FL0139912
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 10, 2016
Expiration date	December 4, 2021
Issuing agency	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Address	Fort Pierce, FL 34946
Receiving water	Indian R Lagoon Class II Estuary WBID 3190
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Fort Pierce Inlet-Indian River (HUC 030802030203)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler FLD072224280

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
2With 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
pH	4	82	31	June 30, 2004
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	40	26	December 31, 2007	33,356% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable	2	34	0
Chloride [as Cl]	0	33	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	24	0
Phosphate, total [as PO4]	0	10	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0	0
Chlorophyll A	2	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	2	0	0
Coliform, fecal general	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 FL0139912.

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit FL0139912, held by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Inc. for the FAU - HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE facility in Fort Pierce, FL, which discharges to Indian R Lagoon Class II Estuary, WBID 3190. The permit is administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger, with 9 in the listed discharger class and 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, of which 2 show an effluent exceedance.