Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0024317
HOYAMALA WARD SECONDARY SCHOOL, San Sebastian, PR: NPDES PR0024317 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 33Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 24Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
HOYAMALA WARD SECONDARY SCHOOL holds NPDES permit PR0024317, which discharges to Chicharron Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 20, 2007 and expiring October 31, 2012. 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 | HOYAMALA WARD SECONDARY SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | HOYAMALA WARD SECONDARY SCHOOL |
| NPDES ID | PR0024317 |
| 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 20, 2007 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2012 |
| Address | San Sebastian, PR 00755 |
| Receiving water | CHICHARRON CREEK |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Rio Guatemala (HUC 210100030101) |
| 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
- 43Pollutants on file
- 33Under a numeric limit
- 43With 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 | 125 | 64 | April 30, 2016 | 28,500% over the limit |
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 1 | 115 | 62 | September 30, 2014 | 297,122% over the limit |
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 1 | 115 | 52 | August 31, 2016 | 505% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 105 | 43 | March 31, 2013 | 92% over the limit |
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 99 | 40 | May 31, 2016 | 723% over the limit |
| Surfactants [MBAS] | 1 | 93 | 34 | October 31, 2014 | 1,210% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 2 | 160 | 30 | April 30, 2009 | 846% over the limit |
| Ammonia & ammonium- total | 1 | 83 | 26 | February 28, 2015 | 8,599,900% over the limit |
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 1 | 86 | 25 | April 30, 2011 | 5,167% over the limit |
| Color [PT-CO units] | 1 | 79 | 20 | November 30, 2011 | |
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 82 | 18 | February 29, 2016 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 79 | 18 | December 31, 2015 | 500% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 78 | 18 | June 30, 2014 | 567% over the limit |
| Coliform, total general | 1 | 73 | 14 | December 31, 2015 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit | 1 | 71 | 13 | December 31, 2015 | 70,400% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 73 | 11 | July 31, 2014 | 567% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 1 | 72 | 10 | July 31, 2014 | 3,257% over the limit |
| Phenolics, total recoverable | 0 | 15 | 7 | December 31, 2006 | 5,500% over the limit |
| Fluoride, total [as F] | 1 | 60 | 4 | August 31, 2007 | 577% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 2 | 133 | 3 | April 30, 2009 | 73% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 123 | 2 | February 28, 2013 | |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 62 | 1 | September 30, 2009 | 135% over the limit |
| Sulfide, total [as S] | 1 | 54 | 1 | May 31, 2009 | 900% over the limit |
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 0 | 9 | 1 | November 30, 2004 | 2,977% over the limit |
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 62 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 1 | 58 | 0 | ||
| Oil & Grease | 1 | 58 | 0 | ||
| 2-Chlorophenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dichlorophenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dimethylphenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 2,4-Dinitrophenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| Phenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| Pentachlorophenol | 2 | 56 | 0 | ||
| 2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol | 2 | 55 | 0 | ||
| Sulfite [as S] | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Manganese, total [as Mn] | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Chloride [as Cl] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Daphnia Magna % Mortality 48 Hr Acute | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Pimephales | 0 | 1 | 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 PR0024317.
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.