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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0060968

AQUIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Stafford, VA: NPDES VA0060968 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AQUIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Stafford County Board of Supervisors, holds NPDES permit VA0060968, which discharges to Lower Aquia Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 24, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024. 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 filedAQUIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedStafford County Board of Supervisors
NPDES IDVA0060968
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
IssuedSeptember 24, 2019
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2024
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressStafford, VA 22554
Receiving waterLower Aquia Creek
SubwatershedLower Aquia Creek (HUC 020700110203)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAD000779835; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005117900108

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]61717March 31, 2011695% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]41717February 28, 2025313% over the limit
Solids, total suspended477July 31, 2020233% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]411December 31, 200060% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general011December 31, 20025% over the limit
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
E. coli100
Nitrogen, Total As N100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas100

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
February 16, 2026Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 7, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 19, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 30, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 10, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 28, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 9, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
March 21, 2020Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
January 3, 2020Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 15, 2019Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
March 20, 2019Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 11, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 28, 2017Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
June 17, 2017Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 24, 2017Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6

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 NPDES permit VA0060968 for the AQUIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT in Stafford, VA, held by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors and discharging to Lower Aquia Creek. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 14 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and its file dates are issued September 24, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024.