Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0022748

HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS CLAYS MILL ELEMENTARY, Scottsburg, VA: NPDES VA0022748 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS CLAYS MILL ELEMENTARY, held by Dale Miller, holds NPDES permit VA0022748, which discharges to Difficult Creek-Piney Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 2021 and expiring July 31, 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 filed	HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS CLAYS MILL ELEMENTARY
Permittee as filed	Dale Miller
NPDES ID	VA0022748
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	July 26, 2021
Expiration date	July 31, 2026
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Scottsburg, VA 24589
Receiving water	Difficult Creek-Piney Creek
Subwatershed	Piney Creek-Difficult Creek (HUC 030101020602)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	12	12	April 30, 2021	440% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	2	0
E. coli	2	2	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0	0

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 VA0022748.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES VA0022748.

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 VA0022748.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VA0022748, held by HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS CLAYS MILL ELEMENTARY in Scottsburg, VA, which discharges to Difficult Creek-Piney Creek and sits within the Piney Creek-Difficult Creek subwatershed (HUC 030101020602). The permit is administratively continued, classed as a minor discharger, and lists 8 Pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 Pollutant with an effluent exceedance.