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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0024031

SHAWSVILLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Shawsville, VA: NPDES VA0024031 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SHAWSVILLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Montgomery County PSA, holds NPDES permit VA0024031, which discharges to South Fork Roanoke River-Brake Branch. EPA’s file records it issued December 31, 2018 and expiring December 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 filedSHAWSVILLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedMontgomery County PSA
NPDES IDVA0024031
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 31, 2018
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2023
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressShawsville, VA 24162
Receiving waterSouth Fork Roanoke River-Brake Branch
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBrake Branch-South Fork Roanoke River (HUC 030101010105)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – 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

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
Phosphorus, total [as P]466May 31, 202567% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]822January 31, 202217% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]111December 31, 202594% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C400
Solids, total suspended400
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
E. coli100

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 8, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 15, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 8, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 11, 2020Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 7, 2020Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 17, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 4, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6

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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What this page shows

The Velarion Records page covers NPDES discharge permit VA0024031 for the Shawsville Wastewater Treatment Plant in Shawsville, VA, held by Montgomery County PSA, which discharges to South Fork Roanoke River-Brake Branch. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 8 pollutants with an effluent exceedance per the file as loaded on October 14, 2026.