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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0119725

CORPUS CHRISTI COGENERATION PLANT, Corpus Christi, TX: NPDES TX0119725 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CORPUS CHRISTI COGENERATION PLANT, held by CALPINE OPERATING SERVICES CO, INC, holds NPDES permit TX0119725, which discharges to Corpus Christi Inner Harbor. EPA’s file records it issued June 4, 2015 and expiring June 1, 2020. 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 filedCORPUS CHRISTI COGENERATION PLANT
Permittee as filedCALPINE OPERATING SERVICES CO, INC
NPDES IDTX0119725
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
IssuedJune 4, 2015
Expiration dateJune 1, 2020
AddressCorpus Christi, TX 78407
Receiving waterCORPUS CHRISTI INNER HARBOR
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SIC4911 – Electric Services
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler TXR000048173; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004835500176

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TX0119725.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
March 4, 2025Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
February 21, 2019Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES TX0119725.

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 TX0119725.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES TX0119725 for the Corpus Christi Cogeneration Plant in Corpus Christi, TX, held by Calpine Operating Services Co, Inc, which discharges to Corpus Christi Inner Harbor. The listed figures show a permit status of Administratively continued, a Major Discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.