Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0000566
BLUE HERON PAPER CO., Oregon City, OR: NPDES OR0000566 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 26Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
BLUE HERON PAPER CO., held by TRI-CITY SERVICE DISTRICT, holds NPDES permit OR0000566, which discharges to Willamette River(Rm 27.5&26.1). EPA’s file records it issued April 28, 2006 and expiring March 31, 2011. 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 | BLUE HERON PAPER CO. |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | TRI-CITY SERVICE DISTRICT |
| NPDES ID | OR0000566 |
| 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 | April 28, 2006 |
| Expiration date | March 31, 2011 |
| Address | Oregon City, OR 97045 |
| Receiving water | WILLAMETTE RIVER(RM 27.5&26.1) |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Tanner Creek-Willamette River (HUC 170900070405) |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler ORD987198488 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 26Pollutants on file
- 26Under a numeric limit
- 5With a violation of any kind
- 1With 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 | 10 | 1 | 1 | March 31, 2009 | |
| Solids, total suspended | 16 | 3 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 12 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 7 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Excess thermal load | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Discharge event observation [Visual Monitoring] | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total production - mass | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Duration | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| E. coli | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Color [PT-CO units] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Redox [oxidation reduction potential] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon, tot organic [TOC] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Carbon, dissolved organic [as C] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total [as Cd] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Methylmercury | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate | 1 | 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 OR0000566.
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 September 15, 2026.