Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0002941

SILSBEE RAILYARD, Silsbee, TX: NPDES TX0002941 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SILSBEE RAILYARD, held by BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY AND TIMBER ROCK RAILROAD LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0002941, which discharges to Drainage Ditch, Unnamed Trib, Booge. EPA’s file records it issued April 24, 2012 and expiring August 1, 2016. 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	SILSBEE RAILYARD
Permittee as filed	BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY AND TIMBER ROCK RAILROAD LLC
NPDES ID	TX0002941
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	April 24, 2012
Expiration date	August 1, 2016
Address	Silsbee, TX 76106
Receiving water	DRAINAGE DITCH, UNNAMED TRIB, BOOGE
Subwatershed	The Cutoff-Neches River (HUC 120200030401)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Oil & Grease	2	88	12	August 31, 2019	973% over the limit
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	2	79	1	October 31, 2004	27% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	80	0
pH	2	76	0
Solids, total suspended	1	40	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
March 29, 2018	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0002941 for the Silsbee Railyard in Silsbee, TX, held by BNSF Railway Company and Timber Rock Railroad LLC, which discharges to Drainage Ditch, Unnamed Trib, Booge in the Cutoff-Neches River subwatershed (HUC 120200030401). The permit is administratively continued, was issued April 24, 2012 and expires August 1, 2016, and the page lists 5 pollutants on file, 5 under a numeric limit, and 2 with an effluent exceedance.