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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR040665

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE MS4, Houston, TX: NPDES TXR040665 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE MS4, held by University of Houston-Clear Lake, holds NPDES permit TXR040665, which discharges to Horsepen Bayou Tidal. EPA’s file records it issued October 11, 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 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE 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 TXR040665.

Identity

Facility as filedUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE MS4
Permittee as filedUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake
NPDES IDTXR040665
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
IssuedOctober 11, 2023
Expiration dateJanuary 23, 2024
Issuing agencyTCEQ
AddressHouston, TX 77058
Receiving waterHORSEPEN BAYOU TIDAL
SubwatershedClear Creek-Frontal Galveston Bay (HUC 120402040100)
SIC8221 – Colleges And Universities

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 TXR040665.

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 TXR040665.

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

The University of Houston Clear Lake MS4 is one of 10 storm water small ms4s permits on EPA's NPDES register in Harris County, and 40.0% of those permits have an earlier issue date than this permit. It is also one of 560 NPDES permits in the Clear Creek-Frontal Galveston Bay subwatershed, while 10.0% of the 10 storm water small ms4s permits in Harris County have a violation on file.