Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAG640079

CAPTAIN'S COVE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM, Greenbackville, VA: NPDES VAG640079 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CAPTAIN'S COVE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM, held by Aqua Virginia Inc, holds NPDES permit VAG640079, which discharges to Chincoteague Bay-Swans Gut Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 24, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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	CAPTAIN'S COVE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
Permittee as filed	Aqua Virginia Inc
NPDES ID	VAG640079
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	May 24, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Issuing agency	Virginia
Address	Greenbackville, VA 23353
Receiving water	Chincoteague Bay-Swans Gut Creek
Subwatershed	Swans Gut Creek-Chincoteague Bay (HUC 020403030502)
NAICS	221310 – Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
SIC	4941 – Water Supply

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

4Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
1With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	3	3	September 30, 2020	417% over the limit
pH	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	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 VAG640079.

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 VAG640079 for CAPTAIN'S COVE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM in Greenbackville, VA, held by Aqua Virginia Inc and discharging to Chincoteague Bay-Swans Gut Creek, with the permit issued May 24, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. The listed figures are 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, and the permit is administratively continued.