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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0024422

SKYLAND STP, Skyline Drive, VA: NPDES VA0024422 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SKYLAND STP, held by Shenandoah National Park, holds NPDES permit VA0024422, which discharges to Hawksbill Creek-East Hawksbill Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 29, 2020 and expiring November 30, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedSKYLAND STP
Permittee as filedShenandoah National Park
NPDES IDVA0024422
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeFederal facility
IssuedOctober 29, 2020
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2025
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressSkyline Drive, VA 22835
Receiving waterHawksbill Creek-East Hawksbill Creek
SubwatershedEast Hawksbill Creek-Hawksbill Creek (HUC 020700050906)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]488June 30, 2020829% over the limit
Copper, total recoverable244March 31, 201893% over the limit
Solids, total suspended411July 31, 201925% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]400
pH200
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES VA0024422.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VA0024422 for SKYLAND STP, held by Shenandoah National Park and discharging to Hawksbill Creek-East Hawksbill Creek within the East Hawksbill Creek-Hawksbill Creek subwatershed (HUC 020700050906). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class, 9 pollutants on file, 3 of them under a numeric limit, and 3 showing an effluent exceedance.