Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0024287
SECONDARY SCHOOL ESPINO WARD, San Lorenzo, PR: NPDES PR0024287 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 26Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 24Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
SECONDARY SCHOOL ESPINO WARD, held by PUERTO RICO PUBLIC BUILDING - Espino Ward Secondary School, holds NPDES permit PR0024287, which discharges to Emajagua River. EPA’s file records it issued September 23, 2009 and expiring November 30, 2014. 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 | SECONDARY SCHOOL ESPINO WARD |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | PUERTO RICO PUBLIC BUILDING - Espino Ward Secondary School |
| NPDES ID | PR0024287 |
| 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 23, 2009 |
| Expiration date | November 30, 2014 |
| Address | San Lorenzo, PR 00754 |
| Receiving water | EMAJAGUA RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Rio Emajagua (HUC 210100050401) |
| SIC | 8211 – Elementary And Secondary Schools |
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
- 35Pollutants on file
- 26Under a numeric limit
- 35With a violation of any kind
- 24With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 1 | 185 | 140 | February 28, 2017 | 53,900% over the limit |
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 1 | 135 | 110 | November 30, 2016 | 555,456% over the limit |
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 1 | 149 | 105 | May 31, 2017 | 2,383% over the limit |
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 102 | 76 | December 31, 2016 | 80,900% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 126 | 73 | January 31, 2017 | 567% over the limit |
| Surfactants [MBAS] | 1 | 106 | 61 | May 31, 2017 | 99,900% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 97 | 44 | May 31, 2017 | 567% over the limit |
| Phenolics, total recoverable | 0 | 41 | 36 | November 30, 2009 | 1,999,900% over the limit |
| Sulfide, total [as S] | 1 | 53 | 28 | January 31, 2016 | 99,900% over the limit |
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 1 | 58 | 27 | March 31, 2017 | 1,567% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 0 | 43 | 18 | September 30, 2002 | 99,900% over the limit |
| Color [PT-CO units] | 0 | 43 | 17 | December 31, 2008 | |
| Coliform, total general | 1 | 66 | 16 | August 31, 2016 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 2 | 111 | 15 | November 30, 2015 | 35,900% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 80 | 13 | January 31, 2016 | 99,999% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 2 | 111 | 11 | May 31, 2017 | 143% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit | 1 | 55 | 11 | January 31, 2016 | 19,900% over the limit |
| Manganese, total [as Mn] | 0 | 14 | 9 | November 30, 2009 | 320% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 1 | 51 | 7 | November 30, 2015 | 42,092,492% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 60 | 4 | February 29, 2012 | 100% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 0 | 14 | 3 | August 31, 2004 | 26,950% over the limit |
| Chloride [as Cl] | 0 | 6 | 3 | October 31, 1995 | 30,700% over the limit |
| Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C | 0 | 9 | 2 | January 31, 2003 | 31,100% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 108 | 1 | February 28, 1994 | |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 53 | 0 | ||
| Fluoride, total [as F] | 1 | 52 | 0 | ||
| Pentachlorophenol | 2 | 51 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dinitrophenol | 2 | 50 | 0 | ||
| 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol | 2 | 50 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 50 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 2 | 49 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 1 | 45 | 0 | ||
| Ammonia & ammonium- total | 1 | 44 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated] | 0 | 19 | 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 PR0024287.
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.