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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR051899

JAMES CITY COUNTY RECYCLING, Toano, VA: NPDES VAR051899 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

JAMES CITY COUNTY RECYCLING, held by Empire Services, holds NPDES permit VAR051899, which discharges to Diascund Creek-Mill 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 (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedJAMES CITY COUNTY RECYCLING
Permittee as filedEmpire Services
NPDES IDVAR051899
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
AddressToano, VA 23168
Receiving waterDiascund Creek-Mill Creek
SubwatershedMill Creek-Diascund Creek (HUC 020802060603)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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 suspended210
Nitrogen, total [as N]110
Phosphorus, total [as P]110
Iron, total recoverable100
Zinc, total recoverable100
Aluminum, total recoverable100
Cadmium, total recoverable100
Lead, total recoverable100
Chromium, total recoverable100
Copper, total recoverable100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR051899.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 23, 2021Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VAR051899, held by Empire Services for JAMES CITY COUNTY RECYCLING in Toano, VA, which discharges to Diascund Creek-Mill Creek in the Mill Creek-Diascund Creek subwatershed (HUC 020802060603). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, an issue date of July 1, 2019, and an expiration date of June 30, 2024, and it covers industrial stormwater. The page lists 10 pollutants on file, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 with an effluent exceedance.