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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0069337

SOUTH HILL WWTP, South Hill, VA: NPDES VA0069337 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SOUTH HILL WWTP, held by South Hill, Town of, holds NPDES permit VA0069337, which discharges to Lake Gaston-Flat Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 25, 2018 and expiring August 31, 2023. 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 filedSOUTH HILL WWTP
Permittee as filedSouth Hill, Town of
NPDES IDVA0069337
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 25, 2018
Expiration dateAugust 31, 2023
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressSouth Hill, VA 23970
Receiving waterLake Gaston-Flat Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedFlat Creek-Lake Gaston (HUC 030101060203)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – 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

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
Chlorine, total residual06363September 30, 199960% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]255July 31, 199998% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]822April 30, 199723% over the limit
Iron, total recoverable020
Copper, total recoverable020
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia010
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]800
Solids, total suspended400
pH200
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
E. coli100

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
June 15, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 11, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 7, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 5, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 25, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 5, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 14, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 7, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 21, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
August 31, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 27, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 8, 2023Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 7, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 26, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 12, 2022Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 8, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 23, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 11, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 17, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
February 13, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
January 22, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 4, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
December 11, 2018Effluent 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

The South Hill WWTP (NPDES permit VA0069337), held by South Hill, Town of, is a publicly owned treatment works discharging to Lake Gaston-Flat Creek, with the permit listed as administratively continued and a major discharger class. The page reports 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, in the Flat Creek-Lake Gaston subwatershed (HUC 030101060203).