Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0133141

EXPLORER PIPELINE FAUNA FACILITY, Houston, TX: NPDES TX0133141 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

EXPLORER PIPELINE FAUNA FACILITY, held by EXPLORER PIPELINE COMPANY, holds NPDES permit TX0133141, which discharges to Series Of Unnamed Ditches;Big Gulch Gully. EPA’s file records it issued July 3, 2018 and expiring July 3, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	EXPLORER PIPELINE FAUNA FACILITY
Permittee as filed	EXPLORER PIPELINE COMPANY
NPDES ID	TX0133141
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 3, 2018
Expiration date	July 3, 2023
Address	Houston, TX 77049
Receiving water	SERIES OF UNNAMED DITCHES;BIG GULCH GULLY
Subwatershed	Lower Greens Bayou (HUC 120401040606)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler TXR000008938; ICIS-AIR source TX0000004820100332

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Aluminum, total [as Al]	2	6	4	June 30, 2021	94% over the limit
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]	1	6	2	February 28, 2018	280% over the limit
Oil & Grease	1	5	1	December 31, 2016	80% over the limit
pH	2	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	6	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	1	5	0
Benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene combination	1	5	0
Hydrocarbons, total petroleum	1	5	0
Benzene	1	4	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 TX0133141.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0133141 for the EXPLORER PIPELINE FAUNA FACILITY in Houston, TX, held by EXPLORER PIPELINE COMPANY, with a status of Administratively continued and a Minor discharger class. The facts list 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and a subwatershed code of HUC 120401040606 (Lower Greens Bayou).