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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ORR607218

CASCADE METAL RECYCLING, Grants Pass, OR: NPDES ORR607218 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CASCADE METAL RECYCLING, held by Cascade Metal Recycling, holds NPDES permit ORR607218. EPA’s file records it issued July 22, 2021 and expiring July 1, 2026. 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 filedCASCADE METAL RECYCLING
Permittee as filedCascade Metal Recycling
NPDES IDORR607218
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJuly 22, 2021
Expiration dateJuly 1, 2026
AddressGrants Pass, OR 97526
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedGilbert Creek-Rogue River (HUC 171003080402)
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials

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

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
pH0760
Solids, total suspended0380
Copper, total [as Cu]0380
Lead, total [as Pb]0380
Zinc, total [as Zn]0380
Aluminum, total [as Al]0380
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]0380

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ORR607218.

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 ORR607218.

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.

What this page shows

CASCADE METAL RECYCLING is one of 2 storm water industrial permits on EPA's NPDES register in Josephine County, including this one. It also sits among 20 NPDES permits in the Gilbert Creek-Rogue River subwatershed, and the record lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.