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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WA0021083

VADER STP, Vader, WA: NPDES WA0021083 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

VADER STP, held by City of Vader, holds NPDES permit WA0021083. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2012 and expiring August 31, 2017. 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 filedVADER STP
Permittee as filedCity of Vader
NPDES IDWA0021083
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 31, 2012
Expiration dateAugust 31, 2017
Issuing agencyState
AddressVader, WA 98593
SubwatershedOlequa Creek (HUC 170800050902)
Program components on filePOTW, Pretreatment
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler WAD988490066

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C0288220December 31, 20251,004% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general010890April 30, 20252,882% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal04844January 31, 2024501% over the limit
Fecal coliform, MPN, EC med, 44.5 C02323August 31, 2012323% over the limit
BOD, percent removal [total]08922June 30, 2022167% over the limit
Solids, total suspended09316May 31, 2020235% over the limit
pH, maximum01313August 31, 2011
BOD, 5-day, percent removal01111November 30, 2009105% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual0225December 31, 202299,999% over the limit
pH, minimum044March 31, 2012
pH01462July 31, 2022
Temperature, water deg. centigrade0170
Flow0120
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]080
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]040
Phosphate, total [as PO4]040
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]030
Phosphorus, total [as P]030
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]030
Oil and grease, hexane extr method020
Solids, total dissolved020
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]010

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
October 1, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
April 1, 2017Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit WA0021083 for the VADER STP publicly owned treatment works in Vader, WA, held by City of Vader, which EPA's file lists as administratively continued after its August 31, 2017 expiration date. The page lists 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 11 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it records the discharger class as Minor Discharger 0.