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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR040294

GRAND LAKES WCID MS4, Houston, TX: NPDES TXR040294 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GRAND LAKES WCID MS4, held by Grand Lakes Water Control and Improvement District, holds NPDES permit TXR040294, which discharges to Little Prong Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 24, 2023 and expiring January 23, 2024. 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 GRAND LAKES WCID MS4: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Houston, Texas, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR040294.

Identity

Facility as filedGRAND LAKES WCID MS4
Permittee as filedGrand Lakes Water Control and Improvement District
NPDES IDTXR040294
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
ProgramSmall municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedMarch 24, 2023
Expiration dateJanuary 23, 2024
Issuing agencyTCEQ
AddressHouston, TX 77056
Receiving waterLITTLE PRONG CREEK
SubwatershedBarker Reservoir-Buffalo Bayou (HUC 120401040104)
SIC9511 – Air, Water, & Solid Waste Management

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TXR040294.

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 TXR040294.

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.

What this page shows

GRAND LAKES WCID MS4 is one of 45 storm water small MS4 permits on EPA's NPDES register in Fort Bend County. Of those 45 permits, 2.2% have a violation on file, while 4.4% have an earlier issue date than this permit. The permit is also one of 113 NPDES permits in the Barker Reservoir-Buffalo Bayou subwatershed.