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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR05GL01

PORTS AMERICA TEXAS, Galveston, TX: NPDES TXR05GL01 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PORTS AMERICA TEXAS, held by Ports America Texas, Inc., holds NPDES permit TXR05GL01. EPA’s file records it issued May 28, 2024 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.

What the register holds for PORTS AMERICA TEXAS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Galveston, Texas. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR05GL01.

Identity

Facility as filedPORTS AMERICA TEXAS
Permittee as filedPorts America Texas, Inc.
NPDES IDTXR05GL01
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMay 28, 2024
Expiration dateAugust 13, 2026
AddressGalveston, TX 77550
SubwatershedDickinson Bayou (HUC 120402040200)

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 TXR05GL01.

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 TXR05GL01.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

PORTS AMERICA TEXAS is one of 47 storm water industrial permits on EPA's NPDES register in Galveston County. Of those 47 permits, 63.8% have an earlier issue date than this permit. The permit is one of 382 NPDES permits in the Dickinson Bayou subwatershed, HUC 120402040200, and 4.3% of the 47 storm water industrial permits in Galveston County have a violation on file.