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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051689

MESSER LLC, Hopewell, VA: NPDES VAR051689 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MESSER LLC, held by Messer LLC, holds NPDES permit VAR051689, 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.

What the register holds for MESSER LLC: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Hopewell, 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 VAR051689.

Identity

Facility as filedMESSER LLC
Permittee as filedMesser LLC
NPDES IDVAR051689
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
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler VAR000015719

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
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Iron, total recoverable100
Aluminum, total recoverable100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051689.

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 VAR051689.

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 discharge permit NPDES VAR051689, held by MESSER LLC in Hopewell, VA, under an industrial stormwater program, with a status of administratively continued. The page lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it records the permit as issued July 1, 2019 and expiring June 30, 2024.