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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0026409

TOWN OF COLONIAL BEACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Colonial Beach, VA: NPDES VA0026409 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TOWN OF COLONIAL BEACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Colonial Beach Town of, holds NPDES permit VA0026409, which discharges to Potomac River-Popes Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2017 and expiring July 31, 2022. 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 filedTOWN OF COLONIAL BEACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedColonial Beach Town of
NPDES IDVA0026409
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 31, 2017
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2022
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressColonial Beach, VA 22443
Receiving waterPotomac River-Popes Creek
SubwatershedPopes Creek-Potomac River (HUC 020700110604)

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]22929May 31, 2026839% over the limit
pH21212July 31, 2012
Coliform, fecal general2188February 28, 202699,999% over the limit
Enterococci177February 28, 202699,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C433June 30, 2023309% over the limit
Nitrogen, Total As N122December 31, 2025199% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]111July 31, 20249% over the limit
Phosphorus, Total As P111December 31, 20227% over the limit
BOD, percent removal [total]011December 31, 202320% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal011December 31, 202360% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual060
Solids, total suspended440
Nitrogen, total [as N]020
Phosphorus, total [as P]020
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Temperature, water deg. centigrade100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Cyprinodon variegatus100

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
June 29, 2026Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
March 23, 2026Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
January 23, 2026Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 14, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 11, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 1, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 23, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 9, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 18, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 13, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
November 11, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 3, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 19, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 9, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 3, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 11, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 28, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
December 3, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 27, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 26, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 13, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 11, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 11, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 12, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 10, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 29, 2020WW 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.

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

This public-records page covers the NPDES discharge permit VA0026409 for the Town of Colonial Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant in Colonial Beach, VA, held by Colonial Beach Town of and discharging to Potomac River-Popes Creek. The permit is administratively continued, has a Major Discharger class, and is listed with 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.