Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0102008

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, Houston, TX: NPDES TX0102008 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
9Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, held by CENTERPOINT ENERGY PROPERTIES INC, holds NPDES permit TX0102008, which discharges to Unnamed Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2012 and expiring December 1, 2014. 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	CENTERPOINT ENERGY
Permittee as filed	CENTERPOINT ENERGY PROPERTIES INC
NPDES ID	TX0102008
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	July 31, 2012
Expiration date	December 1, 2014
Address	Houston, TX 77064
Receiving water	UNNAMED DITCH
Subwatershed	Headwaters Greens Bayou (HUC 120401040601)
SIC	4911 – Electric Services

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
9With 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	5	13	5	January 31, 2016	74% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	6	8	5	August 31, 2009	103% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	9	3	May 31, 2008	91% over the limit
Chlorine, free available	2	8	2	July 31, 2006	64% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	2	2	January 31, 2016	489% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	9	1	July 31, 2003	33% over the limit
pH	4	7	1	May 31, 2003
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	3	1	1	September 30, 2008	43% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	1	1	January 31, 2011	14% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	0	0
Selenium, total [as Se]	2	0	0
E. coli	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TX0102008.

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 TX0102008, held by CENTERPOINT ENERGY PROPERTIES INC for CENTERPOINT ENERGY in Houston, TX, which discharges to Unnamed Ditch in the Headwaters Greens Bayou subwatershed (HUC 120401040601). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 9 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.