Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0139874

INNER HARBOR DESALINATION PLANT, Corpus Christi, TX: NPDES TX0139874 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

INNER HARBOR DESALINATION PLANT, held by CORPUS CHRISTI, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit TX0139874, which discharges to Corpus Christi Inner Harbor. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2025 and expiring March 18, 2030. 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.

What the register holds for INNER HARBOR DESALINATION PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Corpus Christi, Texas, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TX0139874.

Identity

Facility as filed	INNER HARBOR DESALINATION PLANT
Permittee as filed	CORPUS CHRISTI, CITY OF
NPDES ID	TX0139874
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 18, 2025
Expiration date	March 18, 2030
Address	Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Receiving water	Corpus Christi Inner Harbor
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TX0139874.

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 TX0139874.

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.

The Inner Harbor Desalination Plant in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, holds an effective individual permit under NPDES ID TX0139874, issued March 18, 2025 and expiring March 18, 2030. Among the 42 individual permits on the EPA's NPDES register in Nueces County, this one is one of them, and 97.4% of the county's 38 individual permits carry an earlier issue date than it. The permit records no pollutants with a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, while 78.6% of the county's 42 individual permits have a violation on file.