Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0091928

WIRTZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Wirtz, VA: NPDES VA0091928 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WIRTZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Western Virginia Water Authority, holds NPDES permit VA0091928, which discharges to Maggodee Creek. EPA’s file records it issued November 21, 2019 and expiring November 30, 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	WIRTZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filed	Western Virginia Water Authority
NPDES ID	VA0091928
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	November 21, 2019
Expiration date	November 30, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Wirtz, VA 24184
Receiving water	Maggodee Creek
Subwatershed	Maggodee Creek (HUC 030101010504)
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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	37	37	March 31, 2026	6,900% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	25	25	March 31, 2026	700% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	3	3	May 31, 2021	7% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	1	1	March 31, 2018	27% over the limit
E. coli	1	1	1	May 31, 2018	74% 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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES VA0091928.

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 NPDES permit VA0091928 for the WIRTZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT in Wirtz, VA, held by Western Virginia Water Authority and discharging to Maggodee Creek. The permit is administratively continued and is classed as a minor discharger, with 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.