Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES SC0038644

OCONEE CO SCHOOL DIST WEST OAK HIGH SCHOOL, Westminster, SC: NPDES SC0038644 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

OCONEE CO SCHOOL DIST WEST OAK HIGH SCHOOL, held by SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OCONEE COUNTY, holds NPDES permit SC0038644. EPA’s file records it issued January 18, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2018. 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	OCONEE CO SCHOOL DIST WEST OAK HIGH SCHOOL
Permittee as filed	SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OCONEE COUNTY
NPDES ID	SC0038644
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
Program	Industrial pretreatment
Issued	January 18, 2017
Expiration date	September 30, 2018
Issuing agency	State
Address	Westminster, SC 29693
Subwatershed	Choestoea Creek (HUC 030601020502)
NAICS	611110 – Elementary and Secondary Schools
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

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	12	8	February 28, 2019	112% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	11	7	July 31, 2021	247% over the limit
Lead, total [as Pb]	4	22	2	August 31, 2011	204% over the limit
E. coli	8	17	1	September 30, 2020	593% over the limit
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	4	20	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	4	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	4	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	4	0
pH	4	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	1	0
Chlorine, total residual	4	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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 22, 2024	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6
March 9, 2020	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6

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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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit SC0038644, held by the School District of Oconee County for OCONEE CO SCHOOL DIST WEST OAK HIGH SCHOOL in Westminster, SC, and listed as administratively continued. The page lists 12 as the Minor Discharger class, with 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it draws on the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file as of October 14, 2026.