Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WA0020192

PE ELL STP, Pe Ell, WA: NPDES WA0020192 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
19Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PE ELL STP, held by The Town of Pe Ell, holds NPDES permit WA0020192. EPA’s file records it issued June 12, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2023. 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 filed	PE ELL STP
Permittee as filed	The Town of Pe Ell
NPDES ID	WA0020192
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	June 12, 2018
Expiration date	June 30, 2023
Issuing agency	State
Address	Pe Ell, WA 98572
Subwatershed	Jones Creek-Chehalis River (HUC 171001030103)
Program components on file	POTW, Pretreatment

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

21Pollutants on file
19Under a numeric limit
21With a violation of any kind
7With 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	20	269	14	April 30, 2021	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	4	82	11	January 31, 2020	183% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	13	10	November 30, 2024	85% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	10	193	4	June 30, 2024	300% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	20	275	3	December 31, 2020	99,999% over the limit
pH, minimum	0	12	3	July 31, 2012
BOD, percent removal [total]	2	4	1	November 30, 2017	13% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	10	197	0
Flow	6	155	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	75	0
pH, maximum	0	10	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	4	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	4	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	4	0
Phosphorus, dissolved reactive [drp as P]	2	4	0
pH	4	2	0
Rainfall	4	2	0
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.	2	2	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	2	2	0
Solids, total dissolved	2	2	0
Number of operating tubes	2	1	0

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 WA0020192.

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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This public-records page covers NPDES permit WA0020192 for PE ELL STP in Pe Ell, WA, held by The Town of Pe Ell, a publicly owned treatment works within the Jones Creek-Chehalis River subwatershed (HUC 171001030103). The page lists the permit as administratively continued, a minor discharger class, with 21 pollutants on file, 19 under a numeric limit, 21 with a violation of any kind, and 7 with an effluent exceedance.