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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR1535XT

ELM CREEK, Elgin, TX: NPDES TXR1535XT discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ELM CREEK, held by Groundworks Ess, LLC, holds NPDES permit TXR1535XT, which discharges to Dry Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 26, 2026 and expiring March 4, 2028. 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 ELM CREEK: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Elgin, Texas, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR1535XT.

Identity

Facility as filedELM CREEK
Permittee as filedGroundworks Ess, LLC
NPDES IDTXR1535XT
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedMarch 26, 2026
Expiration dateMarch 4, 2028
AddressElgin, TX 78621
Receiving waterDRY CREEK
SubwatershedElm Creek-Dry Creek (HUC 120903010104)

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 TXR1535XT.

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 TXR1535XT.

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

The ELM CREEK storm water construction permit, held by Groundworks Ess, LLC in Elgin, is one of 894 such permits in Travis County, and only 0.3% of those 894 permits carry a violation on file. Among those same 894 Travis County storm water construction permits, 80.8% were issued earlier than this one, which was issued March 26, 2026. The permit also sits within the Elm Creek-Dry Creek subwatershed, which holds 34 NPDES permits including this one, and it records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.