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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051113

ARDENT MILLS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Culpeper, VA: NPDES VAR051113 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ARDENT MILLS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, held by Ardent Mills Limited Liability Company, holds NPDES permit VAR051113, which discharges to Mountain Run-Hiders Branch. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2019 and expiring June 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 filedARDENT MILLS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Permittee as filedArdent Mills Limited Liability Company
NPDES IDVAR051113
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJuly 1, 2019
Expiration dateJune 30, 2024
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressCulpeper, VA 22701
Receiving waterMountain Run-Hiders Branch
SubwatershedHiders Branch-Mountain Run (HUC 020801030501)
NAICS311211 – Flour Milling
SIC2041 – Flour And Other Grain Mill Products

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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended410
Nitrogen, total [as N]210
Phosphorus, total [as P]210
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051113.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES VAR051113.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VAR051113, held by Ardent Mills Limited Liability Company in Culpeper, VA, for discharge to Mountain Run-Hiders Branch in the Hiders Branch-Mountain Run subwatershed (HUC 020801030501). The permit is administratively continued, is classed as a Minor discharger under the industrial stormwater program, and lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.