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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WAR302802

HOUGHTON TRANSFER STATION, Kirkland, WA: NPDES WAR302802 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HOUGHTON TRANSFER STATION, held by King County Solid Waste Division, holds NPDES permit WAR302802. 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 filedHOUGHTON TRANSFER STATION
Permittee as filedKing County Solid Waste Division
NPDES IDWAR302802
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
IssuedNovember 20, 2019
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2024
Issuing agencyState
AddressKirkland, WA 98033
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLake Washington-Sammamish River (HUC 171100120400)
NAICS562111 – Solid Waste Collection
SIC4212 – 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

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
Turbidity24535December 31, 2024
Zinc, total [as Zn]23221December 31, 2024343% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]23120September 30, 2024376% over the limit
Oil and grease visual2199December 31, 20232,147,483,650% over the limit
pH4231December 31, 2018

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 WAR302802.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES WAR302802 for HOUGHTON TRANSFER STATION in Kirkland, WA, held by King County Solid Waste Division, with a status of Administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The page lists 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, within the Lake Washington-Sammamish River subwatershed (HUC 171100120400).