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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0146579

LAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT, Port Isabel, TX: NPDES TX0146579 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT, held by LAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT, holds NPDES permit TX0146579. 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 LAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its its address in Port Isabel, Texas. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TX0146579.

Identity

Facility as filedLAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT
Permittee as filedLAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT
NPDES IDTX0146579
Permit statusPending
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
AddressPort Isabel, TX 78578
SubwatershedBahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel (HUC 121102080900)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TX0146579.

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 TX0146579.

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 October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The Laguna Madre Water District Seawater Desalination Plant in Port Isabel, Texas, holds a pending individual permit (NPDES ID TX0146579) and is one of 31 individual permits in Cameron County. Among the 199 NPDES permits in the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel subwatershed, it is likewise counted, and no pollutants under a numeric limit or with an effluent exceedance are recorded for it. Of the 31 individual permits in Cameron County, 45.2% carry a violation on file.