Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAN040071

RUTLEDGE CREEK WWTP, Amherst, VA: NPDES VAN040071 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

RUTLEDGE CREEK WWTP, held by Rutledge Creek WWTP, holds NPDES permit VAN040071. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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 RUTLEDGE CREEK WWTP: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Amherst, Virginia, and 7 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAN040071.

Identity

Facility as filed	RUTLEDGE CREEK WWTP
Permittee as filed	Rutledge Creek WWTP
NPDES ID	VAN040071
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	January 1, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2021
Issuing agency	Virginia
Address	Amherst, VA 24521
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Rutledge Creek (HUC 020802030603)
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

7Pollutants on file
7Under 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
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	0	0
Nitrogen, Total As N	1	0	0
Phosphorus, Total As P	1	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAN040071.

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 VAN040071.

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 NPDES permit VAN040071 for RUTLEDGE CREEK WWTP in Amherst, Virginia, held by Rutledge Creek WWTP, with a permit status of administratively continued, a minor discharger class, and an expiration date of December 31, 2021. The page lists 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.