Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0111686

PORT ARTHUR PRODUCTS STATION, Port Arthur, TX: NPDES TX0111686 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PORT ARTHUR PRODUCTS STATION, held by COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY, holds NPDES permit TX0111686, which discharges to West El Vista Ditch,Main Outfall Ca. EPA’s file records it issued August 25, 2015 and expiring July 1, 2018. 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	PORT ARTHUR PRODUCTS STATION
Permittee as filed	COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY
NPDES ID	TX0111686
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	August 25, 2015
Expiration date	July 1, 2018
Address	Port Arthur, TX 77640
Receiving water	WEST EL VISTA DITCH,MAIN OUTFALL CA
Subwatershed	Salt Bayou (HUC 120402010300)
SIC	4613 – Refined Petroleum Pipelines
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source TX0000004824500048

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

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
4With 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
pH	2	18	2	February 28, 2011
Copper, total [as Cu]	1	4	2	August 31, 2011	52% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	1	6	1	September 30, 2007	90% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	3	1	February 28, 2013	98% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	11	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	2	11	0
Oil & Grease	1	9	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	1	9	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	4	0
E. coli	2	2	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 17, 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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0111686 for PORT ARTHUR PRODUCTS STATION in Port Arthur, TX, held by COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY, with a status of administratively continued and a Minor Discharger class. The facts list 10 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is associated with the Salt Bayou watershed (HUC 120402010300).