Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR05FH33

RIO GRANDE CITY PUBLIC UTILITY DEPARTMENT, Rio Grande City, TX: NPDES TXR05FH33 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

RIO GRANDE CITY PUBLIC UTILITY DEPARTMENT, held by City of Rio Grande City, holds NPDES permit TXR05FH33. EPA’s file records it issued November 12, 2021 and expiring August 13, 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 filed	RIO GRANDE CITY PUBLIC UTILITY DEPARTMENT
Permittee as filed	City of Rio Grande City
NPDES ID	TXR05FH33
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	November 12, 2021
Expiration date	August 13, 2026
Address	Rio Grande City, TX 78582
Subwatershed	Kelsey Lake-Rio Grande (HUC 130900010106)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0	0
Arsenic, total [as As]	2	0	0
Barium, total [as Ba]	2	0	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	2	0	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	2	0	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	0	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	2	0	0
Nickel, total [as Ni]	2	0	0
Silver, total [as Ag]	2	0	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	0	0
Selenium, total [as Se]	2	0	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TXR05FH33.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TXR05FH33.

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
January 29, 2026	Evaluation	E

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES TXR05FH33.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TXR05FH33, held by City of Rio Grande City for the facility RIO GRANDE CITY PUBLIC UTILITY DEPARTMENT in Rio Grande City, Texas, under the Industrial program. The listed figures are 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is shown as administratively continued.