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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR052432

PITTS LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATED, Saluda, VA: NPDES VAR052432 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PITTS LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATED, held by Pitts Lumber Company Inc, holds NPDES permit VAR052432, which discharges to Dragon Swamp-Meggs Bay. 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 filedPITTS LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATED
Permittee as filedPitts Lumber Company Inc
NPDES IDVAR052432
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
AddressSaluda, VA 23149
Receiving waterDragon Swamp-Meggs Bay
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMeggs Bay-Dragon Swamp (HUC 020801020204)

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 suspended4110
Arsenic, total recoverable280
Chromium, total recoverable280
Copper, total recoverable280
Nitrogen, total [as N]230
Phosphorus, total [as P]230

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR052432.

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 VAR052432.

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 NPDES permit VAR052432, held by Pitts Lumber Company Inc in Saluda, VA, which discharges to Dragon Swamp-Meggs Bay under an administratively continued industrial stormwater general permit. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives the permit's issue date of July 1, 2019 and expiration date of June 30, 2024.