Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0119016

GULF STATES AQUACULTURE, Palacios, TX: NPDES TX0119016 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

GULF STATES AQUACULTURE, held by GULF STATES AQUACULTURE LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0119016, which discharges to Matagorda Bay/Powderhorn Lake. EPA’s file records it issued July 2, 2020 and expiring July 2, 2025. 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	GULF STATES AQUACULTURE
Permittee as filed	GULF STATES AQUACULTURE LLC
NPDES ID	TX0119016
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 2, 2020
Expiration date	July 2, 2025
Address	Palacios, TX 77465
Receiving water	MATAGORDA BAY/POWDERHORN LAKE
Subwatershed	East Carancahua Creek (HUC 121004010200)
SIC	0273 – Animal Aquaculture

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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
2With 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	18	990	4	August 31, 2008	26% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	36	1,027	1	March 31, 2021	59% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	20	1,057	0
pH	18	994	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	18	992	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	18	992	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 TX0119016.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES TX0119016.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES TX0119016.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit TX0119016, held by GULF STATES AQUACULTURE LLC for GULF STATES AQUACULTURE in Palacios, TX, with discharge to MATAGORDA BAY/POWDERHORN LAKE. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, 6 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.