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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR1544TP

DATA CENTER PORTABLE BATCH PLANT, Merkel, TX: NPDES TXR1544TP discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DATA CENTER PORTABLE BATCH PLANT, held by Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete, LLC, holds NPDES permit TXR1544TP, which discharges to Bull Wagon Creek. EPA’s file records it issued February 12, 2025 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 DATA CENTER PORTABLE BATCH PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Merkel, Texas, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR1544TP.

Identity

Facility as filedDATA CENTER PORTABLE BATCH PLANT
Permittee as filedSmyrna Ready Mix Concrete, LLC
NPDES IDTXR1544TP
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedFebruary 12, 2025
Expiration dateMarch 4, 2028
AddressMerkel, TX 79536
Receiving waterBULL WAGON CREEK
SubwatershedBull Wagon Creek (HUC 120601020503)

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 TXR1544TP.

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 TXR1544TP.

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 DATA CENTER PORTABLE BATCH PLANT is the only NPDES permit in the Bull Wagon Creek subwatershed, this one included. It is one of 148 storm water construction permits in Taylor County, and 44.6% of those 148 were issued earlier than this one. Among those 148 Taylor County storm water construction permits, 0.7% have a violation on file, while this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.