Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0001295

STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY - FOREST GROVE, Gaston, OR: NPDES OR0001295 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY - FOREST GROVE, held by STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY, holds NPDES permit OR0001295, which discharges to Scoggins Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 16, 2004 and expiring July 31, 2009. 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	STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY - FOREST GROVE
Permittee as filed	STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY
NPDES ID	OR0001295
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	September 16, 2004
Expiration date	July 31, 2009
Address	Gaston, OR 97119
Receiving water	SCOGGINS CREEK
Subwatershed	Sain Creek-Scoggins Creek (HUC 170900100203)
SIC	2421 – Sawmills And Planing Mills, General
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler ORQ000008912; ICIS-AIR source OR0000004106702066

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
10With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	1	1	April 30, 2023
Dilution factor	1	1	March 31, 2026	29% over the limit
Mercury, total recoverable	3	0
Iron, total recoverable	2	0
Turbidity	1	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	0
Oil & Grease	1	0
Cadmium, total recoverable	1	0
Lead, total recoverable	1	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 OR0001295.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit OR0001295, held by STIMSON LUMBER COMPANY for its Forest Grove facility in Gaston, OR, which discharges to Scoggins Creek and is listed as administratively continued with a Minor discharger class. The page lists 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and records the permit as issued September 16, 2004 with an expiration date of July 31, 2009.