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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051497

AIRGAS USA LLC - HOPEWELL, Hopewell, VA: NPDES VAR051497 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AIRGAS USA LLC - HOPEWELL, held by Airgas USA, LLC, holds NPDES permit VAR051497, which discharges to James River-Bailey Creek. 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 filedAIRGAS USA LLC - HOPEWELL
Permittee as filedAirgas USA, LLC
NPDES IDVAR051497
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
AddressHopewell, VA 23860
Receiving waterJames River-Bailey Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBailey Creek-James River (HUC 020802060201)
NAICS325120 – Industrial Gas Manufacturing
SIC2813 – Industrial Gases

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
Nitrogen, total [as N]210
Solids, total suspended110
Phosphorus, total [as P]110
Iron, total recoverable100
Aluminum, total recoverable100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051497.

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 VAR051497.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit VAR051497 for AIRGAS USA LLC - HOPEWELL in Hopewell, VA, an industrial stormwater program permit held by Airgas USA, LLC that discharges to James River-Bailey Creek, which is listed as impaired under 303(D). The permit is administratively continued, with zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and the status reflects EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.