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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA640004D

LAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT, Lake Ariel, PA: NPDES PA640004D discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT, held by LAKE ARIEL HWY SOLAR LLC, holds NPDES permit PA640004D, which discharges to Unnamed Stream. EPA’s file records it issued July 22, 2025 and expiring July 21, 2030. 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 filedLAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT
Permittee as filedLAKE ARIEL HWY SOLAR LLC
NPDES IDPA640004D
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 22, 2025
Expiration dateJuly 21, 2030
Issuing agencyState Environmental Organization
AddressLake Ariel, PA 18436
Receiving waterUnnamed Stream
SubwatershedButternut Creek-West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek (HUC 020401030402)
NAICS221114 – Solar Electric Power Generation

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES PA640004D.

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 PA640004D.

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
October 22, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS
August 7, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS
April 29, 2026Reconnaissance without SamplingS

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES PA640004D.

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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LAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT, Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania: Individual permit PA640004D, held by LAKE ARIEL HWY SOLAR LLC; Effective; issued July 22, 2025, term to July 21, 2030, by State Environmental Organization; discharges to Unnamed Stream; Solar Electric Power Generation.

  • October 22, 2026: Reconnaissance without Sampling (S).
  • August 7, 2026: Reconnaissance without Sampling (S).
  • April 29, 2026: Reconnaissance without Sampling (S).

LAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 14 discharge permits in the Butternut Creek-West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek subwatershed (HUC 020401030402), PA640004D among them.

Other permits in the Butternut Creek-West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek subwatershed (HUC 020401030402)

  • CASELLA LAKE ARIEL HAULING & TRANSF STATION, Lake Ariel: PAD640061, minor permit, discharging to UNT To West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to May 21, 2030
  • GREENRI IND LLC, Lake Ariel: PAD640079, minor permit, discharging to UNT Of West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to July 29, 2031
  • JEFFERSON TWP REC COMPLEX, Mount Cobb: PAD350029, minor permit, discharging to UNT Of West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to April 3, 2028
  • LAKE ARIEL HAULING - GFL ENVIRO, Lake Ariel: PA0276529, minor permit, discharging to UNT To West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to May 31, 2027
  • LITTS & SONS STONE B & E QUARRY, Moscow: PA0226050, minor permit, discharging to UNT Of Butternut Creek, permit term to December 16, 2024
  • MOOSIC LAKES INC PORTION OF ABRAHAM SINGER WARRANT, Jefferson Township: PAD350046, minor permit, discharging to UNT To West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to April 28, 2029
  • OLDE GROVE EST, Mount Cobb: PAD350056, minor permit, discharging to Unnamed Stream, permit term to March 23, 2030
  • POND VIEW AT JEFFERSON TWP LLC, Jefferson: PAD350050, minor permit, discharging to UNT To West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to July 30, 2029
  • SALEM SOLAR 1, Hamlin: PAD640066, minor permit, discharging to UNT To Jones Creek, permit term to April 8, 2031
  • SALEM SOLAR 2, Lake Ariel: PAD640072, minor permit, discharging to UNT To West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, permit term to May 5, 2031

Nearby on the register

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

What this page shows

The LAKE ARIEL SOLAR PROJECT permit (PA640004D) is one of 11 individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, and 18.2% of those 11 individual permits carry a violation on file. Among those same 11 individual permits, 45.5% were issued earlier than this one, which took effect on July 22, 2025. The permit lies within a subwatershed that holds 14 NPDES permits, including this one, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances on record.