Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0025844
ECW LANDFILL CORPORATION, Ponce, PR: NPDES PR0025844 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 20Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
ECW LANDFILL CORPORATION, held by Allied Waste of Ponce, Inc., holds NPDES permit PR0025844, which discharges to Rio Pastillo. EPA’s file records it issued September 27, 2007 and expiring November 30, 2012. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | ECW LANDFILL CORPORATION |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Allied Waste of Ponce, Inc. |
| NPDES ID | PR0025844 |
| 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 | September 27, 2007 |
| Expiration date | November 30, 2012 |
| Address | Ponce, PR 00732 |
| Receiving water | RIO PASTILLO |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Rio Pastillo (HUC 210100040301) |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler PRD980594709; ICIS-AIR source PR0000007211300054 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 23Pollutants on file
- 20Under a numeric limit
- 23With a violation of any kind
- 5With 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 | 36 | 17 | May 31, 2023 | 3,108% over the limit |
| Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD] | 1 | 23 | 10 | May 31, 2023 | 2,173% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. centigrade | 1 | 27 | 7 | August 31, 2020 | 10% over the limit |
| Oxygen demand, chem. [COD], dissolved | 0 | 12 | 6 | June 30, 2006 | 89,900% over the limit |
| Oil & Grease | 1 | 21 | 1 | September 30, 2004 | 62,567% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Solids, settleable | 1 | 20 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 1 | 15 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 15 | 0 | ||
| Color [PT-CO units] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Sulfide, total [as S] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Chloride [as Cl] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate, total [as SO4] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total [as Cd] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Silver, total [as Ag] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total [as Se] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Surfactants [MBAS] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, total general | 1 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Storm water flow | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit | 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 PR0025844.
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 September 15, 2026.