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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0024101

NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK, Natural Bridge, VA: NPDES VA0024101 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK, held by Natural Bridge State Park, holds NPDES permit VA0024101, which discharges to James River/Elk Creek/Cedar Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 1, 2017 and expiring October 31, 2022. 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 filedNATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK
Permittee as filedNatural Bridge State Park
NPDES IDVA0024101
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
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 1, 2017
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2022
Issuing agencySTATE
AddressNatural Bridge, VA 24578
Receiving waterJames River/Elk Creek/Cedar Creek
SubwatershedSpring Gap Creek-Cedar Creek (HUC 020802011504)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAP308201311

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C499July 31, 2024442% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]199November 30, 202398% over the limit
pH277June 30, 2025
E. coli177October 31, 202299,999% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual366April 30, 2023173% over the limit
Solids, total suspended422June 30, 201921% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200

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
July 13, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
June 25, 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 VA0024101.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VA0024101, held by Natural Bridge State Park in Natural Bridge, VA, which discharges to James River/Elk Creek/Cedar Creek within the Spring Gap Creek-Cedar Creek subwatershed (HUC 020802011504). The permit is administratively continued, classed as a Minor Discharger, and lists 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.