Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0088765

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER-SMITH MOUNTAIN HYDRO PLANT, Sandy Level, VA: NPDES VA0088765 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER-SMITH MOUNTAIN HYDRO PLANT, held by Appalachian Power Company, holds NPDES permit VA0088765, which discharges to Roanoke River/Leesville Lake-Clay Branch. EPA’s file records it issued June 13, 2016 and expiring June 30, 2020. 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.

What the register holds for AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER-SMITH MOUNTAIN HYDRO PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Sandy Level, Virginia, its receiving water, and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VA0088765.

Identity

Facility as filed	AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER-SMITH MOUNTAIN HYDRO PLANT
Permittee as filed	Appalachian Power Company
NPDES ID	VA0088765
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	June 13, 2016
Expiration date	June 30, 2020
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Sandy Level, VA 24161
Receiving water	Roanoke River/Leesville Lake-Clay Branch
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Craddock Creek-Smith Mountain Lake (HUC 030101010705)
NAICS	221111 – Hydroelectric Power Generation
SIC	4911 – Electric Services

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

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	14	0	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	6	0	0
pH	4	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VA0088765.

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 VA0088765.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VA0088765 for the AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER-SMITH MOUNTAIN HYDRO PLANT in Sandy Level, Virginia, held by Appalachian Power Company. The page lists a Minor Discharger class 3 classification, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.