Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WAR010082

EMPIRE DISPOSAL INC, Colfax, WA: NPDES WAR010082 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

EMPIRE DISPOSAL INC, held by Empire Disposal Inc, holds NPDES permit WAR010082. EPA’s file records it issued November 20, 2019 and expiring December 31, 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 filed	EMPIRE DISPOSAL INC
Permittee as filed	Empire Disposal Inc
NPDES ID	WAR010082
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	November 20, 2019
Expiration date	December 31, 2024
Issuing agency	State
Address	Colfax, WA 99111
Subwatershed	Clear Creek-Palouse River (HUC 170601080306)
NAICS	562111 – Solid Waste Collection
SIC	4212 – Local Trucking, Without Storage

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

8Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Oil and grease visual	1	14	6	September 30, 2017	2,147,483,650% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	12	4	September 30, 2016	71% over the limit
pH	2	31	3	June 30, 2021
Turbidity	1	10	2	June 30, 2021
Copper, total [as Cu]	1	8	0
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Diesel	0	4	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	0	1	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	0	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 WAR010082.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES WAR010082.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES WAR010082.

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 NPDES permit WAR010082, held by Empire Disposal Inc in Colfax, WA, and lists its permit status as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class. The page shows 8 pollutants on file, of which 5 are under a numeric limit and 4 have an effluent exceedance, and it is cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file.