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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0025437

SOUTH CENTRAL WASTEWATER AUTHORITY WWTF, Petersburg, VA: NPDES VA0025437 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SOUTH CENTRAL WASTEWATER AUTHORITY WWTF, held by South Central Wastewater Authority, holds NPDES permit VA0025437, which discharges to Appomattox River-Oldtown Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2017 and expiring September 30, 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 filedSOUTH CENTRAL WASTEWATER AUTHORITY WWTF
Permittee as filedSouth Central Wastewater Authority
NPDES IDVA0025437
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 1, 2017
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2022
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressPetersburg, VA 23803
Receiving waterAppomattox River-Oldtown Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedOldtown Creek-Appomattox River (HUC 020802071001)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAD988193462; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005173000261

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
Chlorine, total residual37864September 30, 201299,999% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]83030March 31, 19971,556% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant298September 30, 201142% over the limit
Solids, total suspended422March 31, 1998653% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]422August 31, 20231,413% over the limit
Toxicity, final conc toxicity units140
Nitrogen, total [as N]120
pH200
Phosphorus, total [as P]200
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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
July 12, 2024Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 9, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 4, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 26, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 25, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 9, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 6, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 21, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 28, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 24, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 3, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 26, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 15, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
October 14, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 2, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 6, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 30, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 30, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 8, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
November 29, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 27, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 4, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
March 25, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 24, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 8, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 19, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 5, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
December 7, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 15, 2019Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
October 18, 2019Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
October 11, 2019Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 23, 2019Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
March 20, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
December 11, 2017Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 18, 2017WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6

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.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VA0025437 for the SOUTH CENTRAL WASTEWATER AUTHORITY WWTF in Petersburg, VA, held by South Central Wastewater Authority and listed as administratively continued. The register lists 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.