Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0091804

HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS-CLUSTER SPRINGS ELEM, Alton, VA: NPDES VA0091804 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS-CLUSTER SPRINGS ELEM, held by Halifax County Public Schools, holds NPDES permit VA0091804, which discharges to Hyco River-Coleman Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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	HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS-CLUSTER SPRINGS ELEM
Permittee as filed	Halifax County Public Schools
NPDES ID	VA0091804
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 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Alton, VA 24520
Receiving water	Hyco River-Coleman Creek
Subwatershed	Coleman Creek-Hyco River (HUC 030101040606)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source VA0000005108300062

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
9Under 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
Solids, total suspended	4	4	4	August 31, 2019	1,003% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	2	2	February 28, 2026	230% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	2	August 31, 2018	3% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	0	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	3	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
E. coli	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 VA0091804.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit VA0091804 for HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS-CLUSTER SPRINGS ELEM in Alton, VA, held by Halifax County Public Schools and discharging to Hyco River-Coleman Creek. The listed figures are a Minor Discharger class, 9 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as administratively continued.