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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051128

SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION - RICHMOND FACILITY, Colonial Heights, VA: NPDES VAR051128 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION - RICHMOND FACILITY, held by Sun Chemical Corporation, holds NPDES permit VAR051128, which discharges to Swift Creek-Franks 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.

What the register holds for SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION - RICHMOND FACILITY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Colonial Heights, Virginia, its receiving water, and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAR051128.

Identity

Facility as filedSUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION - RICHMOND FACILITY
Permittee as filedSun Chemical Corporation
NPDES IDVAR051128
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
AddressColonial Heights, VA 23834
Receiving waterSwift Creek-Franks Branch
SubwatershedFranks Branch-Swift Creek (HUC 020802070904)
NAICS325910 – Printing Ink Manufacturing
SIC2893 – Printing Ink
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAR000012708; ICIS-AIR source VA0000005157000178

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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 suspended100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051128.

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 VAR051128.

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 VAR051128 held by Sun Chemical Corporation for its Richmond Facility in Colonial Heights, Virginia, which discharges to Swift Creek-Franks Branch. The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit showing an effluent exceedance and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit. The page also lists the permit as issued July 1, 2019 and expiring June 30, 2024.