Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051479

LOUISA COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL, Mineral, VA: NPDES VAR051479 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LOUISA COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL, held by Louisa County Water Authority, holds NPDES permit VAR051479, which discharges to Upper Little River. 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 filed	LOUISA COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL
Permittee as filed	Louisa County Water Authority
NPDES ID	VAR051479
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
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	July 1, 2019
Expiration date	June 30, 2024
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Mineral, VA 23117
Receiving water	Upper Little River
Subwatershed	Upper Little River (HUC 020801060701)
NAICS	562212 – Solid Waste Landfill
SIC	4953 – Refuse 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

11Pollutants on file
11Under 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
Solids, total suspended	5	7	7	December 31, 2023	456% over the limit
pH	4	2	2	June 30, 2020
Benzoic acids, total	4	2	2	December 31, 2022	604% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	1	1	December 31, 2022	104% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	0	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	4	0	0
Phenol	4	0	0
.alpha.-Terpineol	4	0	0
p-Cresol	4	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	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 VAR051479.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit VAR051479 for LOUISA COUNTY SANITARY LANDFILL in Mineral, VA, held by Louisa County Water Authority, with its status shown as administratively continued. The page lists 11 for the discharger class, 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.