Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR052093

ESSEX RECYCLING INC, Tappahannock, VA: NPDES VAR052093 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ESSEX RECYCLING INC, held by Essex Recycling Incorporated, holds NPDES permit VAR052093, which discharges to Hoskins 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 filed	ESSEX RECYCLING INC
Permittee as filed	Essex Recycling Incorporated
NPDES ID	VAR052093
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	Tappahannock, VA 22560
Receiving water	Hoskins Creek
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Hoskins Creek (HUC 020801040404)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Solids, total suspended	4	2
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	2
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	2
Iron, total recoverable	2	0
Zinc, total recoverable	2	0
Aluminum, total recoverable	2	0
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	0
Lead, total recoverable	2	0
Chromium, total recoverable	2	0
Copper, total recoverable	2	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR052093.

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 VAR052093.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VAR052093 held by ESSEX RECYCLING INC in Tappahannock, VA, which discharges to Hoskins Creek and is listed as impaired under 303(D). The permit is administratively continued, classed as a minor discharger, and covers industrial stormwater, with 10 pollutants on file, 0 under a numeric limit, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.