Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0023396

DOC RUSTBURG CORRECTIONAL UNIT 9, Rustburg, VA: NPDES VA0023396 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DOC RUSTBURG CORRECTIONAL UNIT 9, held by Department of Corrections - Western Region, holds NPDES permit VA0023396, which discharges to South Fork Falling River-Button Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 12, 2019 and expiring March 31, 2024. 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	DOC RUSTBURG CORRECTIONAL UNIT 9
Permittee as filed	Department of Corrections - Western Region
NPDES ID	VA0023396
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 12, 2019
Expiration date	March 31, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Rustburg, VA 24588
Receiving water	South Fork Falling River-Button Creek
Subwatershed	Button Creek-South Fork Falling River (HUC 030101020203)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler VAR000540237; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005103100107

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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
1With 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
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	1	1	June 30, 2022	38% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0	0
E. coli	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 VA0023396.

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

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VA0023396 for DOC RUSTBURG CORRECTIONAL UNIT 9, held by Department of Corrections - Western Region, which discharges to South Fork Falling River-Button Creek within the Button Creek-South Fork Falling River subwatershed (HUC 030101020203). The page lists a permit status of Administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.