Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0000477
RIMCO INC, San Juan, PR: NPDES PR0000477 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 9Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
RIMCO INC holds NPDES permit PR0000477, which discharges to C Merc La Torre. EPA’s file records it issued March 24, 2006 and expiring May 1, 2011. 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 | RIMCO INC |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | RIMCO INC |
| NPDES ID | PR0000477 |
| 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 | March 24, 2006 |
| Expiration date | May 1, 2011 |
| Address | San Juan, PR 00936 |
| Receiving water | C MERC LA TORRE |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Cienaga de las Cucharillas Drainage Watershed (HUC 210100050503) |
| SIC | 5082 – Construction And Mining Machinery |
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
- 12Pollutants on file
- 9Under a numeric limit
- 12With a violation of any kind
- 6With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 1 | 75 | 12 | December 31, 2010 | 1,172% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 23 | 11 | December 31, 2010 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit | 1 | 17 | 5 | May 31, 2010 | 400% over the limit |
| Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD] | 0 | 55 | 3 | May 31, 2006 | 73% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 117 | 1 | May 31, 2004 | 1% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 1 | 53 | 1 | May 31, 2006 | 33% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 129 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 64 | 0 | ||
| Iron, total [as Fe] | 0 | 53 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 1 | 52 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, total general | 1 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD] | 0 | 12 | 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 PR0000477.
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 October 14, 2026.