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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0137898

NORTHWEST WWTP, City Of Houston, TX: NPDES TX0137898 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NORTHWEST WWTP, held by HARRIS COUNTY MUD 418, holds NPDES permit TX0137898, which discharges to Unnamed Trib (Hcfcd)K155-00-00;Cypress Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 19, 2018 and expiring February 1, 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 filedNORTHWEST WWTP
Permittee as filedHARRIS COUNTY MUD 418
NPDES IDTX0137898
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 19, 2018
Expiration dateFebruary 1, 2023
AddressCity Of Houston, TX 77433
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB (HCFCD)K155-00-00;CYPRESS CREEK
SubwatershedMallard Lake-Cypress Creek (HUC 120401020103)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Solids, total suspended030
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]030
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]030
pH020
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant020
Chlorine, total residual020
E. coli020
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TX0137898.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TX0137898.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The NORTHWEST WWTP permit, filed under permittee HARRIS COUNTY MUD 418, is one of 338 POTW permits in Harris County on EPA's NPDES register, and 95.3% of those permits have a violation on file. It sits within the Mallard Lake-Cypress Creek subwatershed, where 154 NPDES permits are listed, this one included. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance on file.