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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0140503

COLORADO BEND II POWER FACILITY, Wharton, TX: NPDES TX0140503 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLORADO BEND II POWER FACILITY, held by COLORADO BEND POWER II LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0140503, which discharges to Colorado River Below La Grange. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2021 and expiring September 28, 2026. 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 filedCOLORADO BEND II POWER FACILITY
Permittee as filedCOLORADO BEND POWER II LLC
NPDES IDTX0140503
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 28, 2021
Expiration dateSeptember 28, 2026
AddressWharton, TX 77488
Receiving waterColorado River Below La Grange
SubwatershedBosque Creek-Colorado River (HUC 120903020201)

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
Oil & Grease220
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
pH200
Solids, total suspended200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TX0140503.

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 TX0140503.

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

This page covers NPDES permit TX0140503 for the COLORADO BEND II POWER FACILITY in Wharton, TX, held by COLORADO BEND POWER II LLC and discharging to Colorado River Below La Grange within the Bosque Creek-Colorado River subwatershed (HUC 120903020201). The facts list 4 pollutants on file, 4 under a numeric limit, 1 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.