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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR052249

GILLIES CREEK INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING, Richmond, VA: NPDES VAR052249 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GILLIES CREEK INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING, held by Gillies Creek Industrial Recycling, LLC, holds NPDES permit VAR052249, which discharges to James River-Almond 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 filedGILLIES CREEK INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING
Permittee as filedGillies Creek Industrial Recycling, LLC
NPDES IDVAR052249
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
AddressRichmond, VA 23223
Receiving waterJames River-Almond Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedAlmond Creek-James River (HUC 020802060101)
NAICS423930 – Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials
Other EPA IDs (FRS)ICIS-AIR source VA0000005108700586

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
Solids, total suspended10100
Nitrogen, total [as N]7100
Phosphorus, total [as P]7100
pH1010
Iron, total recoverable500
Zinc, total recoverable500
Aluminum, total recoverable500
Cadmium, total recoverable500
Lead, total recoverable500
Chromium, total recoverable500
Copper, total recoverable500
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C200
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]200
Arsenic, total recoverable200
Selenium, total recoverable200
Silver total recoverable200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR052249.

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 VAR052249.

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 NPDES permit VAR052249 for Gillies Creek Industrial Recycling in Richmond, VA, held by Gillies Creek Industrial Recycling, LLC and administratively continued past its June 30, 2024 expiration. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.