Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0023558

DOC - PATRICK HENRY CORRECTIONAL UNIT 28, Ridgeway, VA: NPDES VA0023558 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DOC - PATRICK HENRY CORRECTIONAL UNIT 28, held by Department of Corrections - Western Region, holds NPDES permit VA0023558, which discharges to Horse Pasture Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 13, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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 - PATRICK HENRY CORRECTIONAL UNIT 28
Permittee as filed	Department of Corrections - Western Region
NPDES ID	VA0023558
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
Issued	September 13, 2018
Expiration date	August 31, 2023
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Ridgeway, VA 24148
Receiving water	Horse Pasture Creek
Subwatershed	Horse Pasture Creek (HUC 030101030406)
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
3With 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, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	10	10	June 30, 2026	488% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	2	2	February 28, 2022	256% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	3	1	1	November 30, 2015	67% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
E. coli	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 VA0023558.

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 NPDES discharge permit VA0023558 for DOC - PATRICK HENRY CORRECTIONAL UNIT 28 in Ridgeway, VA, which discharges to Horse Pasture Creek and is listed as administratively continued. The page lists 8 for discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued September 13, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023.