Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0125962

SOMERVILLE CORRECTIVE ACTION MGMT UNIT, Somerville, TX: NPDES TX0125962 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SOMERVILLE CORRECTIVE ACTION MGMT UNIT, held by BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, holds NPDES permit TX0125962, which discharges to Thompson Creek, Yegua Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2004 and expiring May 1, 2009. 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	SOMERVILLE CORRECTIVE ACTION MGMT UNIT
Permittee as filed	BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
NPDES ID	TX0125962
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	June 1, 2004
Expiration date	May 1, 2009
Address	Somerville, TX 77879
Receiving water	THOMPSON CREEK, YEGUA CREEK
Subwatershed	Wolf Creek-Yegua Creek (HUC 120701020309)
SIC	4011 – Railroads, Line-Haul Operating
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler TXR000003780; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004805100012

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

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
12With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	4	58
Solids, total suspended	4	58
Barium, total [as Ba]	4	58
Chromium, total [as Cr]	4	58
Copper, total [as Cu]	4	58
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	58
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	2	29
Oil & Grease	2	29
Arsenic, total [as As]	2	29
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	29
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex	2	8
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	8

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TX0125962.

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 TX0125962.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0125962, held by BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY for SOMERVILLE CORRECTIVE ACTION MGMT UNIT in Somerville, TX, which discharges to Thompson Creek and Yegua Creek within the Wolf Creek-Yegua Creek subwatershed (HUC 120701020309). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.