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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0027286

OXBOW POWER PLANT, Oxbow, OR: NPDES OR0027286 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

OXBOW POWER PLANT, held by IDAHO POWER COMPANY, holds NPDES permit OR0027286, which discharges to Snake River. EPA’s file records it issued September 27, 2004 and expiring August 31, 2009. 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 filedOXBOW POWER PLANT
Permittee as filedIDAHO POWER COMPANY
NPDES IDOR0027286
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 27, 2004
Expiration dateAugust 31, 2009
AddressOxbow, OR 97840
Receiving waterSNAKE RIVER
SubwatershedLower Pine Creek (HUC 170502010610)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ORSTATE03949

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit0200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0160
Oil & Grease040

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES OR0027286.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES OR0027286.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The OXBOW POWER PLANT permit, held by IDAHO POWER COMPANY, is one of 2 individual permits on the register in Baker County, and it is the only NPDES permit in the Lower Pine Creek subwatershed. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances, each counted as 0.