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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0062006

WILKES POWER PLANT, Cass County, TX: NPDES TX0062006 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WILKES POWER PLANT, held by SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, holds NPDES permit TX0062006, which discharges to Johnson Ck Reservoir;Johnson Ck;Lake O' The Pines. EPA’s file records it issued April 18, 2018 and expiring April 18, 2023. 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 filedWILKES POWER PLANT
Permittee as filedSOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO
NPDES IDTX0062006
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 18, 2018
Expiration dateApril 18, 2023
AddressCass County, TX 75630
Receiving waterJOHNSON CK RESERVOIR;JOHNSON CK;LAKE O' THE PINES
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMeddlin Creek (HUC 111403050402)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler TXD079766283; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004831500001

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant811July 31, 20171% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual220
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1700
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2700
pH400
Solids, total suspended400
Oil & Grease400
Copper, total [as Cu]400
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas400
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas400
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas400
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pinephales promelas400
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas400
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia400
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas400
Iron, total [as Fe]200
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit100
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex100
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas100

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TX0062006.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit TX0062006 for the Wilkes Power Plant in Cass County, TX, held by Southwestern Electric Power Co, and lists its status as administratively continued with a Major Discharger class of 24. The page reports 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's receiving water shown as Johnson Ck Reservoir, Johnson Ck and Lake O' The Pines, within the Meddlin Creek subwatershed (HUC 111403050402).