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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXG110862

KNIFE RIVER BRIDGE CITY PLANT, Bridge City, TX: NPDES TXG110862 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KNIFE RIVER BRIDGE CITY PLANT, held by KNIFE RIVER CORPORATION - SOUT, holds NPDES permit TXG110862. EPA’s file records it issued February 3, 2017 and expiring November 7, 2021. 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 filedKNIFE RIVER BRIDGE CITY PLANT
Permittee as filedKNIFE RIVER CORPORATION - SOUT
NPDES IDTXG110862
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 3, 2017
Expiration dateNovember 7, 2021
AddressBridge City, TX 77611
SubwatershedCoon Bayou-Cow Bayou (HUC 120100051005)

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
pH413929September 30, 2019
Solids, total suspended27418June 30, 2020943% over the limit
Oil & Grease2591June 30, 201049% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2570
Arsenic, total [as As]2110
Barium, total [as Ba]2110
Cadmium, total [as Cd]2110
Chromium, total [as Cr]2110
Copper, total [as Cu]2110
Lead, total [as Pb]2110
Manganese, total [as Mn]2110
Nickel, total [as Ni]2110
Silver, total [as Ag]2110
Zinc, total [as Zn]2110
Selenium, total [as Se]2110
Mercury, total [as Hg]2110
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)170
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Menidia menidia170
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex130
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas130
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1200
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2200

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 TXG110862.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TXG110862 for the KNIFE RIVER BRIDGE CITY PLANT in Bridge City, TX, held by KNIFE RIVER CORPORATION - SOUT, with the permit listed as administratively continued and in the Coon Bayou-Cow Bayou (HUC 120100051005) subwatershed. The page lists 22 pollutants on file, 20 under a numeric limit, and 3 with an effluent exceedance.