Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NJ0021083

VETERANS AFFAIRS NJ HEALTH CARE SYSTEM-LYONS, Bernards Twp, NJ: NPDES NJ0021083 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Name: VETERANS AFFAIRS NJ HEALTH CARE SYSTEM-LYONS, NPDES NJ0021083: Clean Water Act discharge permit record
Creator: Velarion Records
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Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VETERANS AFFAIRS NJ HEALTH CARE SYSTEM-LYONS, held by NJ DEPT OF MILITARY & VETERANS AFFAIRS, holds NPDES permit NJ0021083. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2020. 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	VETERANS AFFAIRS NJ HEALTH CARE SYSTEM-LYONS
Permittee as filed	NJ DEPT OF MILITARY & VETERANS AFFAIRS
NPDES ID	NJ0021083
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Federal facility
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 26, 2016
Expiration date	September 30, 2020
Address	Bernards Twp, NJ 07939
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Dead River (HUC 020301030603)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler NJ8360010385; ICIS-AIR source NJ0000003403536080

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
15With a violation of any kind
8With 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
Copper, total recoverable	8	144	52	March 31, 2026	179% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	14	168	19	March 31, 2021	99,999% over the limit
E. coli	4	49	7	November 30, 2025	860% over the limit
%Effect Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	31	7	May 31, 2021	99,999% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	89	5	August 31, 2023	225% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	16	86	2	June 30, 2018	23% over the limit
Zinc, total recoverable	8	101	1	January 31, 2023	141% over the limit
pH	8	83	1	March 31, 2020
Solids, total suspended	14	144	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	12	138	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	8	120	0
Oil & Grease	4	46	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	42	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	4	40	0
Arsenic, total recoverable	0	2	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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 29, 2025	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct Inspections	ST6
December 20, 2017	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct Inspections	ST6

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 page is a Velarion Records entry for NPDES permit NJ0021083, held by NJ Dept of Military & Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Affairs NJ Health Care System-Lyons facility in Bernards Twp, NJ, and classed as a minor discharger under an administratively continued individual permit issued July 26, 2016 with an expiration date of September 30, 2020. The page lists 14 pollutants under a numeric limit and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it cites the Dead River subwatershed (HUC 020301030603) with a receiving water listed as impaired under 303(D).