Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0065552

OPEQUON WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY, Winchester, VA: NPDES VA0065552 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

OPEQUON WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY, held by Frederick-Winchester Service Authority, holds NPDES permit VA0065552, which discharges to Opequon Creek-Sulphur Spring Run. EPA’s file records it issued June 28, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2026. 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 filed	OPEQUON WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY
Permittee as filed	Frederick-Winchester Service Authority
NPDES ID	VA0065552
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 28, 2021
Expiration date	June 30, 2026
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Winchester, VA 22602
Receiving water	Opequon Creek-Sulphur Spring Run
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Sulphur Spring Run-Opequon Creek (HUC 020700040901)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler VAP303201606; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005106900154

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

13Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
5With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Chlorine, total residual	2	51	36	December 31, 2022	295% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	16	6	March 31, 2017	414% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	5	5	January 31, 1996	79% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	10	2	April 30, 2025	16% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	2	June 30, 2024	100% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	8	0
E. coli	1	2	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	0	2	0
pH	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Total As N	1	0	0
Phosphorus, Total As P	1	0	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	0	0
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas	1	0	0

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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
May 17, 2018	WW SSO - Discharge to Waters	ST6

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit VA0065552 for the Opequon Water Reclamation Facility in Winchester, VA, held by Frederick-Winchester Service Authority, which discharges to Opequon Creek-Sulphur Spring Run. The permit is administratively continued and classed as a Major Discharger, with 12 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.