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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0026808

SALTVILLE TOWN - WWTP, Saltville, VA: NPDES VA0026808 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SALTVILLE TOWN - WWTP, held by Saltville Town, holds NPDES permit VA0026808, which discharges to North Fork Holston River-Big Creek. EPA’s file records it issued March 1, 2018 and expiring February 28, 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 filedSALTVILLE TOWN - WWTP
Permittee as filedSaltville Town
NPDES IDVA0026808
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
IssuedMarch 1, 2018
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2023
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressSaltville, VA 24370
Receiving waterNorth Fork Holston River-Big Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBig Creek-North Fork Holston River (HUC 060101010203)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]411June 30, 202279% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal011June 30, 2025100% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C400
Solids, total suspended400
pH200
Chloride [as Cl]200
Cadmium, total recoverable200
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

The newest 50 of 87.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
May 18, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 17, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 10, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 15, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 12, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 6, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
January 31, 2025Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 26, 2024Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 17, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 12, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
October 31, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 24, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 28, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 4, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 24, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 23, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 2, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 29, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 28, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 23, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 15, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 3, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 1, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 18, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 5, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 29, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 26, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 17, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 24, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 5, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 29, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 14, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 13, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 25, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 21, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 19, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 21, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 13, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 11, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 6, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 30, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 8, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 11, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 24, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 23, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 22, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 21, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 20, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 18, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 13, 2019WW 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 VA0026808 held by Saltville Town for the SALTVILLE TOWN - WWTP in Saltville, VA, discharging to North Fork Holston River-Big Creek. The page lists a permit status of Administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class of 9, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.