Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0084808

RICHLAND WTP, Aurora, NC: NPDES NC0084808 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

RICHLAND WTP, held by Beaufort County Water System, holds NPDES permit NC0084808. EPA’s file records it issued December 9, 2014 and expiring November 30, 2019. 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	RICHLAND WTP
Permittee as filed	Beaufort County Water System
NPDES ID	NC0084808
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	December 9, 2014
Expiration date	November 30, 2019
Address	Aurora, NC 27806
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

13Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	8
pH	2	4
Conductivity	1	3
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	3
Salinity	1	3
Solids, total suspended	2	2
Turbidity	1	1
Solids, total dissolved	1	1
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	0	1
Copper, total [as Cu]	0	1
Zinc, total [as Zn]	0	1
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NC0084808.

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 NC0084808.

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
October 20, 2026	Evaluation	S

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES NC0084808.

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 the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES NC0084808 for RICHLAND WTP in Aurora, NC, held by Beaufort County Water System, which is administratively continued, classed as a minor discharger, and carries 13 pollutants on file. The facts list 10 pollutants under a numeric limit, 11 with a violation of any kind, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.