Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR052657

NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO - SHENANDOAH YARD, Shenandoah, VA: NPDES VAR052657 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO - SHENANDOAH YARD, held by Norfolk Southern Railway Company, holds NPDES permit VAR052657, which discharges to South Fork Shenandoah River-Fultz Run. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2024 and expiring June 30, 2029. 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 NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO - SHENANDOAH YARD: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Shenandoah, 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 VAR052657.

Identity

Facility as filed	NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO - SHENANDOAH YARD
Permittee as filed	Norfolk Southern Railway Company
NPDES ID	VAR052657
Permit status	Effective
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, 2024
Expiration date	June 30, 2029
Issuing agency	VA DEQ
Address	Shenandoah, VA 22849
Receiving water	South Fork Shenandoah River-Fultz Run
Subwatershed	Fultz Run-South Fork Shenandoah River (HUC 020700050901)
NAICS	482111 – Line-Haul Railroads
SIC	4011 – Railroads, Line-Haul Operating

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

3Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
0With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR052657.

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 VAR052657.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES VAR052657, held by Norfolk Southern Railway Company for its Shenandoah Yard in Shenandoah, Virginia, with an effective status and a minor discharger class of 3. The register lists 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and it records no violation for this permit in EPA's effluent or single-event violation files.