Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0067423

TANGIER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Accomac, VA: NPDES VA0067423 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TANGIER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Town of Tangier, holds NPDES permit VA0067423, which discharges to Smith Island. EPA’s file records it issued January 7, 2020 and expiring January 31, 2025. 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 filed	TANGIER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	Town of Tangier
NPDES ID	VA0067423
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 7, 2020
Expiration date	January 31, 2025
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Accomac, VA 23440
Receiving water	Smith Island
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source VA0000005100100021

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
5With 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
Enterococci	1	28	27	June 30, 2026	2,649% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	1	15	15	March 31, 2026	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	4	3	October 31, 2019
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	2	December 31, 2021	38% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	3	2	1	August 31, 2022	100% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	0	0
Solids, total suspended	4	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES VA0067423.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VA0067423 for the Tangier Wastewater Treatment Plant in Accomac, VA, held by the Town of Tangier and discharging to Smith Island, with its status listed as administratively continued. The page lists 9 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.