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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0002585

FCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Lorton, VA: NPDES VA0002585 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Fairfax Water, holds NPDES permit VA0002585, which discharges to Occoquan River-Belmont Bay. EPA’s file records it issued April 23, 2021 and expiring April 30, 2026. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedFCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedFairfax Water
NPDES IDVA0002585
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedApril 23, 2021
Expiration dateApril 30, 2026
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressLorton, VA 22079
Receiving waterOccoquan River-Belmont Bay
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBelmont Bay-Occoquan River (HUC 020700100803)
NAICS221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC4941 – Water Supply
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAD981102379

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH800
Solids, total suspended800
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant800
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VA0002585.

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 VA0002585.

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 17, 2026EvaluationS

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 VA0002585.

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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FCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT, Lorton, Virginia: Individual permit VA0002585, held by Fairfax Water; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued April 23, 2021, term to April 30, 2026, by VA DEQ; discharges to Occoquan River-Belmont Bay; Water Supply and Irrigation Systems.

  • pH: 8 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
  • Solids, total suspended: 8 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
  • Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant: 8 limits, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
  • TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia: 1 limit, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
  • TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas: 1 limit, 0 violations of any kind, 0 effluent exceedances.
  • September 17, 2026: Evaluation (S).

Other permits held by Fairfax Water

FCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 51 discharge permits in the Belmont Bay-Occoquan River subwatershed (HUC 020700100803), VA0002585 among them. Its county holds 74, 2 of them major permits; VA0002585 is a minor permit.

Other permits in the Belmont Bay-Occoquan River subwatershed (HUC 020700100803)

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers the NPDES VA0002585 discharge permit held by Fairfax Water for FCWA - GRIFFITH WATER TREATMENT PLANT in Lorton, Virginia, which discharges to Occoquan River-Belmont Bay, and lists its administratively continued status and its dates as of October 14, 2026. The register shows 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.