Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0098604

CRESTCHEM, LLC, Chambers County, TX: NPDES TX0098604 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
29Pollutants under a numeric limit
8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CRESTCHEM, LLC, held by DOME PETROCHEMICAL, L.C., holds NPDES permit TX0098604, which discharges to Cedar Bayou Tidal. EPA’s file records it issued March 31, 2009 and expiring August 1, 2013. 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	CRESTCHEM, LLC
Permittee as filed	DOME PETROCHEMICAL, L.C.
NPDES ID	TX0098604
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	March 31, 2009
Expiration date	August 1, 2013
Address	Chambers County, TX 77523
Receiving water	CEDAR BAYOU TIDAL
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Cedar Point Lateral-Cedar Bayou (HUC 120402030106)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler TXD981606932; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004807100031

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

31Pollutants on file
29Under a numeric limit
31With a violation of any kind
8With 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	141	20	June 30, 2015	857% over the limit
Hexachlorobenzene	4	156	11	October 31, 2015	4,900% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	143	6	July 31, 2015	525% over the limit
Phenolic compounds, total	4	123	6	July 31, 2015	400% over the limit
Sulfide, total [as S]	4	125	4	September 30, 2006	150% over the limit
Oil & Grease	4	152	3	July 31, 2015	660% over the limit
Phenanthrene	4	150	1	June 30, 2014	11% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	146	1	December 31, 2005	50% over the limit
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]	4	149	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	4	149	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	4	148	0
pH	2	79	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	76	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)	2	30	0
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia	2	30	0
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	1	9	0
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Menidia menidia	1	9	0
Benzo[a]pyrene	0	8	0
Benzo[a]anthracene	0	8	0
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1	3	3	0
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2	3	3	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TX0098604.

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0098604, held by CRESTCHEM, LLC and DOME PETROCHEMICAL, L.C., discharging to Cedar Bayou Tidal in Chambers County, TX. The permit is classed as Minor Discharger and is administratively continued, with 29 pollutants under a numeric limit and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The record lists the permit as issued March 31, 2009 and expiring August 1, 2013, with the watershed code HUC 120402030106.