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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0047848

DALLAS SOUTHSIDE WWTP, Dallas, TX: NPDES TX0047848 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DALLAS SOUTHSIDE WWTP, held by DALLAS, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit TX0047848, which discharges to Upper Trinity River. EPA’s file records it issued March 17, 2015 and expiring December 1, 2019. 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 filedDALLAS SOUTHSIDE WWTP
Permittee as filedDALLAS, CITY OF
NPDES IDTX0047848
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 17, 2015
Expiration dateDecember 1, 2019
AddressDallas, TX 75253
Receiving waterUPPER TRINITY RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedPrairie Creek-Trinity River (HUC 120301050203)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler TXD980798409

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
E. coli242November 30, 202351% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant480
Solids, total suspended370
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas460
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas460
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas460
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pinephales promelas460
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas460
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas460
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]640
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia440
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia440
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia440
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]340
pH330
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia420
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia420
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia420
Chlorine, total residual220
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]510
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]110
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex110
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas110
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1700
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2700
Arsenic, dry weight500
Selenium, dry weight300
Copper, dry weight300
Cadmium, dry weight300
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]300
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]300
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]300
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]300
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]300
Nickel, total [as Ni]200
Level of pathogen requirements achieved200
Description of pathogen option used200
Vector attraction reduction alternative used200
Fecal coliform100
Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]100
Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure100
Annual whole sludge application rate100
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method100
Annual amt of sludge incinerated100
Annual sludge production, total100
Annual amount of sludge land applied100
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit100
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill100
Annual amt sludge transported interstate100
Unit w/liner/leachate collection system100
Compliance w/part 258 sludge requirement100
Boundary areas100
Salmonella100
Pollutant table from 503.13100

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 10, 2024Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
September 13, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
February 14, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
July 27, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
April 20, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0047848 for DALLAS SOUTHSIDE WWTP in Dallas, TX, held by DALLAS, CITY OF, which discharges to the UPPER TRINITY RIVER. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Major discharger class, one pollutant under a numeric limit, and one pollutant with an effluent exceedance.