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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WAR045557

WHATCOM COUNTY, Bellingham, WA: NPDES WAR045557 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WHATCOM COUNTY, held by Whatcom County, holds NPDES permit WAR045557. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2019 and expiring July 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.

What the register holds for WHATCOM COUNTY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Bellingham, Washington. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES WAR045557.

Identity

Facility as filedWHATCOM COUNTY
Permittee as filedWhatcom County
NPDES IDWAR045557
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
ProgramSmall municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedJuly 1, 2019
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2024
Issuing agencyState
AddressBellingham, WA 98225
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Whatcom Creek (HUC 171100040603)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler WAD988519658

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES WAR045557.

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 WAR045557.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES WAR045557.

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 WAR045557.

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.

What this page shows

WHATCOM COUNTY is one of 9 Storm Water Small MS4s permits on EPA's NPDES register in Whatcom County, and it sits among 24 NPDES permits in the Lower Whatcom Creek subwatershed, this one included. Of the 9 storm water small MS4s permits in the county, 0.0% have a violation on file, and this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit or effluent exceedances recorded against it.