Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0025461
PRASA AIBONITO WWTP, Aibonito, PR: NPDES PR0025461 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 28Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 29Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
PRASA AIBONITO WWTP holds NPDES permit PR0025461, which discharges to Aibonito River. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2014 and expiring November 30, 2019. 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 | PRASA AIBONITO WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | PRASA AIBONITO WWTP |
| NPDES ID | PR0025461 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | September 29, 2014 |
| Expiration date | November 30, 2019 |
| Address | Aibonito, PR 00609 |
| Receiving water | AIBONITO RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Rio Usabon (HUC 210100050704) |
| Program components on file | POTW, Pretreatment |
| SIC | 4952 – Sewerage Systems |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler PRD000689257 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 38Pollutants on file
- 28Under a numeric limit
- 37With a violation of any kind
- 29With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 10 | 420 | 318 | February 28, 2023 | 15,760% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 150 | 137 | July 31, 2024 | 3,300% over the limit |
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 149 | 136 | April 30, 2016 | 2,300% over the limit |
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 2 | 148 | 134 | July 31, 2026 | 2,093% over the limit |
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 2 | 141 | 127 | April 30, 2016 | 53,910% over the limit |
| Surfactants [MBAS] | 2 | 140 | 127 | October 31, 2015 | 1,230% over the limit |
| Phenolics, total recoverable | 0 | 109 | 105 | June 30, 2006 | 59,600% over the limit |
| Ammonia & ammonium- total | 0 | 110 | 103 | October 31, 2007 | 51,700% over the limit |
| Color [PT-CO units] | 2 | 113 | 99 | August 31, 2015 | |
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 212 | 63 | June 30, 2021 | 509% over the limit |
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 0 | 50 | 41 | August 31, 2007 | 12,122% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 51 | 34 | February 28, 2023 | 220% over the limit |
| Solids, total dissolved | 2 | 42 | 32 | December 31, 2019 | 43% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 47 | 28 | March 31, 2020 | 8,314% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 45 | 28 | August 31, 2019 | 440% over the limit |
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 0 | 31 | 25 | September 30, 2006 | 1,704% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 3 | 57 | 24 | April 30, 2016 | 46% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit | 1 | 39 | 24 | March 31, 2020 | 400% over the limit |
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 2 | 35 | 23 | July 31, 2010 | 2,795% over the limit |
| Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C | 0 | 28 | 21 | November 30, 2007 | 20% over the limit |
| Coliform, total general | 2 | 36 | 16 | December 31, 2010 | 1,500% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia, total [as NH3] | 2 | 27 | 15 | August 31, 2019 | 1,000% over the limit |
| Manganese, total [as Mn] | 0 | 21 | 8 | June 30, 2006 | 660% over the limit |
| Turbidity | 1 | 13 | 3 | January 31, 2008 | |
| pH | 2 | 36 | 2 | May 31, 2008 | |
| Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated] | 2 | 23 | 2 | June 30, 2014 | 22,400% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 18 | 1 | August 31, 2000 | 2% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 18 | 1 | November 30, 2006 | 50% over the limit |
| Cyanide, free available | 2 | 1 | 1 | June 30, 2015 | 52% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 2 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide, total [as S] | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||
| Fluoride, total [as F] | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Whole Effluent Toxicity [WET] - P. promelas | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Whole Effluent Toxicity [WET] - D. magna | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2-Chlorophenol | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr] | 2 | 0 | 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 PR0025461.
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.