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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0057142

KINDER MORGAN BULK TERMINALS - PIER IX, Newport News, VA: NPDES VA0057142 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KINDER MORGAN BULK TERMINALS - PIER IX, held by Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals LLC, holds NPDES permit VA0057142, which discharges to James River-Cooper Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 1, 2016 and expiring July 31, 2021. 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 filedKINDER MORGAN BULK TERMINALS - PIER IX
Permittee as filedKinder Morgan Bulk Terminals LLC
NPDES IDVA0057142
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
IssuedAugust 1, 2016
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2021
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressNewport News, VA 23607
Receiving waterJames River-Cooper Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCooper Creek-James River (HUC 020802060906)
NAICS488320 – Marine Cargo Handling
SIC4491 – Marine Cargo Handling
Other EPA IDs (FRS)ICIS-AIR source VA0000005170000071

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
Solids, total suspended3109December 31, 2023384% over the limit
pH620
Iron, total recoverable310
Nitrogen, total [as N]210
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]210
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]210
Phosphorus, total [as P]210
Precipitation volume210
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant100

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 VA0057142.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit VA0057142, held by Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals LLC for KINDER MORGAN BULK TERMINALS - PIER IX in Newport News, VA, which discharges to James River-Cooper Creek. The page lists one pollutant under a numeric limit and one pollutant with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as administratively continued and the permit status as Minor Discharger class 9. The permit was issued August 1, 2016 and expired July 31, 2021, with the listed dates reflecting EPA's permit file as it stood when loaded on October 14, 2026.