Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WVL026832

WELLSBURG WASTE WATER TREATMEN, Wellsburg, WV: NPDES WVL026832 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

WELLSBURG WASTE WATER TREATMEN holds NPDES permit WVL026832. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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	WELLSBURG WASTE WATER TREATMEN
Permittee as filed	WELLSBURG WASTE WATER TREATMEN
NPDES ID	WVL026832
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Associated permit record
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Biosolids
Issued	January 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Wellsburg, WV 26070
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Salt Run-Ohio River (HUC 050301061202)
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

4Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
4With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]	4	4	December 31, 2011	428% over the limit
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]	1	1	December 31, 1997	2% over the limit
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]	1	1	March 31, 2008	89% over the limit
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]	1	1	December 31, 2009	56% over the limit

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 WVL026832.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES WVL026832.

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 WVL026832.

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 Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES WVL026832 for WELLSBURG WASTE WATER TREATMEN in Wellsburg, WV, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 4 pollutants under a numeric limit, with the permit's issue and expiration dates as stood in EPA's file when Velarion loaded it.