Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0067962

VESPER VIEW WWTP, Waynesboro, VA: NPDES VA0067962 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VESPER VIEW WWTP, held by Augusta County Service Authority, holds NPDES permit VA0067962, which discharges to South River-Paine Run. EPA’s file records it issued April 12, 2019 and expiring May 31, 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 filed	VESPER VIEW WWTP
Permittee as filed	Augusta County Service Authority
NPDES ID	VA0067962
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	April 12, 2019
Expiration date	May 31, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Waynesboro, VA 22980
Receiving water	South River-Paine Run
Subwatershed	Paine Run-South River (HUC 020700050705)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – 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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
3With 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	17	17	March 31, 2025	522% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	6	6	March 31, 2025	447% over the limit
E. coli	1	6	6	February 28, 2019	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Phosphorus, Total As P	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 31, 2018	Effluent Violations - Unapproved Bypass	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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

The Vesper View WWTP in Waynesboro, VA, held by Augusta County Service Authority under NPDES permit VA0067962, is listed here as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, 3 of which had an effluent exceedance. The page records the permit as issued April 12, 2019 and expiring May 31, 2024, with the status reflecting EPA's permit file as of October 14, 2026, and discharges to South River-Paine Run in the Paine Run-South River subwatershed (HUC 020700050705).