Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0032905

WR CROWLEY SUGAR HOUSE WWTP, Hidalgo County, TX: NPDES TX0032905 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WR CROWLEY SUGAR HOUSE WWTP, held by RIO GRANDE VALLEY SUGAR GROWERS INC, holds NPDES permit TX0032905, which discharges to Valley Acres Drainage Canal. Pilot. EPA’s file records it issued June 15, 2015 and expiring June 1, 2020. 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	WR CROWLEY SUGAR HOUSE WWTP
Permittee as filed	RIO GRANDE VALLEY SUGAR GROWERS INC
NPDES ID	TX0032905
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	June 15, 2015
Expiration date	June 1, 2020
Address	Hidalgo County, TX 78593
Receiving water	VALLEY ACRES DRAINAGE CANAL. PILOT
Subwatershed	La Feria Main Canal-Arroyo Colorado (HUC 121102080600)
SIC	2061 – Raw Cane Sugar
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler TXD066447418; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004821500015

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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
7With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	80	6	March 31, 2011	380% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	84	4	December 31, 2021	50% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	68	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	66	0
pH	2	4	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	1	2	0
Oil & Grease	1	2	0
E. coli	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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
October 28, 2025	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6
November 23, 2021	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6
April 22, 2021	Permit Violations - Violation Specified in Comment	ST6
July 30, 2019	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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES discharge permit TX0032905 for WR CROWLEY SUGAR HOUSE WWTP in Hidalgo County, TX, held by RIO GRANDE VALLEY SUGAR GROWERS INC, which discharges to Valley Acres Drainage Canal. The page lists a permit status of administratively continued, a discharger class of 8 minor discharger, 2 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued June 15, 2015 and expiring June 1, 2020 per the EPA file as loaded.