Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0088404

CHESAPEAKE CITY - NORTHWEST RIVER WTP, Chesapeake, VA: NPDES VA0088404 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CHESAPEAKE CITY - NORTHWEST RIVER WTP, held by City of Chesapeake - Public Utilities, holds NPDES permit VA0088404, which discharges to Southern Branch Elizabeth River-New Mill Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 30, 2019 and expiring September 30, 2024. 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	CHESAPEAKE CITY - NORTHWEST RIVER WTP
Permittee as filed	City of Chesapeake - Public Utilities
NPDES ID	VA0088404
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 30, 2019
Expiration date	September 30, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Chesapeake, VA 23322
Receiving water	Southern Branch Elizabeth River-New Mill Creek
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	New Mill Creek-Southern Branch Elizabeth River (HUC 020802080201)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler VAP611201159; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005155000186

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	4	4	September 30, 2025	75% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	1	0
pH	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Solids, total dissolved	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES VA0088404.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VA0088404 for the Chesapeake City - Northwest River WTP in Chesapeake, VA, held by City of Chesapeake - Public Utilities, which discharges to Southern Branch Elizabeth River-New Mill Creek. The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, with 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.