Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0092061

NORTHUMBERLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL WWTP, Heathsville, VA: NPDES VA0092061 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORTHUMBERLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL WWTP, held by Northumberland Middle School and High School WWTP, holds NPDES permit VA0092061, which discharges to Chesapeake Bay/Great Wicomico River. EPA’s file records it issued February 27, 2017 and expiring January 31, 2022. 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	NORTHUMBERLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL WWTP
Permittee as filed	Northumberland Middle School and High School WWTP
NPDES ID	VA0092061
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	February 27, 2017
Expiration date	January 31, 2022
Issuing agency	STATE
Address	Heathsville, VA 22473
Receiving water	Chesapeake Bay/Great Wicomico River
Subwatershed	Great Wicomico River (HUC 020801020102)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

12Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
4With a violation of any kind
4With 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	27	27	March 31, 2024	983% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	10	10	December 31, 2023	117% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	9	9	April 30, 2021	300% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	3	3	September 30, 2016	110% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	3	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	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 VA0092061.

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 NPDES permit VA0092061, held by Northumberland Middle School and High School WWTP in Heathsville, VA, which discharges to Chesapeake Bay/Great Wicomico River within the Great Wicomico River watershed (HUC 020801020102). The permit is administratively continued, was issued February 27, 2017 and expired January 31, 2022, and the page lists 12 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.