Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FL0178870

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIV - SEA TECH FACILITY, Dania, FL: NPDES FL0178870 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIV - SEA TECH FACILITY, held by Fau - Sea Tech Campus, holds NPDES permit FL0178870, which discharges to Whiskey Cr, New River Sound, Class Iii Marine. EPA’s file records it issued February 12, 2019 and expiring June 29, 2024. 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	FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIV - SEA TECH FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Fau - Sea Tech Campus
NPDES ID	FL0178870
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	February 12, 2019
Expiration date	June 29, 2024
Issuing agency	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Address	Dania, FL 33004
Receiving water	Whiskey Cr, New River Sound, Class III Marine
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Boca Raton Inlet-Port Everglades (HUC 030902061300)
NAICS	541712 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences [except Biotechnology]
SIC	8733 – Noncommercial Research Organizations

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

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
4With 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
Iron, total recoverable	2	27	15	September 30, 2024	200% over the limit
pH	2	16	4	December 31, 2022
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	12	0
Aluminum, total recoverable	1	6	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 FL0178870.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit FL0178870 for the Florida Atlantic Univ - Sea Tech Facility in Dania, FL, held by Fau - Sea Tech Campus, which discharges to Whiskey Cr, New River Sound, Class III Marine. The permit is listed as administratively continued with a minor discharger class of 4, with 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued February 12, 2019 and carries an expiration date of June 29, 2024.