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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0126675

FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 58 WWTP, Fort Bend County, TX: NPDES TX0126675 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 58 WWTP, held by FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 58, holds NPDES permit TX0126675, which discharges to Unnamed Ditch; Buffalo Bayou Unclassified. EPA’s file records it issued March 10, 2022 and expiring March 10, 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 filedFORT BEND COUNTY MUD 58 WWTP
Permittee as filedFORT BEND COUNTY MUD 58
NPDES IDTX0126675
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 10, 2022
Expiration dateMarch 10, 2025
AddressFort Bend County, TX 77494
Receiving waterUNNAMED DITCH; BUFFALO BAYOU UNCLASSIFIED
SubwatershedLittle Prong-Buffalo Bayou (HUC 120401040103)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]39312April 30, 2016246% over the limit
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]21212April 30, 20232,357% over the limit
Solids, total suspended3898December 31, 2009710% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant4622June 30, 20209% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual2531October 31, 201413% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]3870
pH2500
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]1250
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas260
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas260
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas260
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas250
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pinephales promelas250
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas250
E. coli050
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia240
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1300
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2300
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex100
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas100

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
July 10, 2025Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
November 16, 2022Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
April 7, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
December 19, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0126675 for the Fort Bend County MUD 58 WWTP in Fort Bend County, TX, a Major discharger holding an individual permit that is administratively continued after its March 10, 2025 expiration date. The page lists 24 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's status and dates as they stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.