Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0025747
PRASA COTO LAUREL WTP, Ponce, PR: NPDES PR0025747 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 18Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 14Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
PRASA COTO LAUREL WTP, held by PRASA Coto Laurel WTP, holds NPDES permit PR0025747, which discharges to Coto Laurel Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 29, 2015 and expiring January 31, 2021. 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 COTO LAUREL WTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | PRASA Coto Laurel WTP |
| NPDES ID | PR0025747 |
| 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 29, 2015 |
| Expiration date | January 31, 2021 |
| Address | Ponce, PR 00732 |
| Receiving water | COTO LAUREL CREEK |
| Subwatershed | Rio Inabon at mouth (HUC 210100040310) |
| SIC | 4941 – Water Supply |
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
- 21Pollutants on file
- 18Under a numeric limit
- 21With a violation of any kind
- 14With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 2 | 68 | 49 | January 31, 2018 | 9,578% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 42 | 25 | June 30, 2010 | 540% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 1 | 43 | 24 | October 31, 2021 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Turbidity | 2 | 39 | 22 | August 31, 2021 | |
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 2 | 26 | 19 | July 31, 2012 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 2 | 34 | 17 | March 31, 2016 | 54% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 28 | 11 | April 30, 2016 | 324% over the limit |
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 24 | 6 | April 30, 2021 | 866% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 37 | 3 | August 31, 2012 | |
| Nitrogen, ammonia, total [as NH3] | 2 | 19 | 1 | May 31, 2009 | 91% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 18 | 1 | July 31, 2013 | 1% over the limit |
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 0 | 9 | 1 | July 31, 2009 | 415% over the limit |
| Color [PT-CO units] | 1 | 8 | 1 | December 31, 2005 | |
| Solids, total dissolved | 2 | 1 | 1 | March 31, 2009 | 100% over the limit |
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Fluoride, total [as F] | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Ammonia & ammonium- total | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Whole Effluent Toxicity [WET] - P. promelas | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Whole Effluent Toxicity [WET] - D. magna | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate, total [as SO4] | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated] | 2 | 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 PR0025747.
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.