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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CA0103055

AMEDEE GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT, Susanville, CA: NPDES CA0103055 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AMEDEE GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT, held by AMEDEE GEOTHERMAL VENTURE I, holds NPDES permit CA0103055, which discharges to Honey Lake. EPA’s file records it issued January 14, 2009 and expiring January 14, 2014. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedAMEDEE GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT
Permittee as filedAMEDEE GEOTHERMAL VENTURE I
NPDES IDCA0103055
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJanuary 14, 2009
Expiration dateJanuary 14, 2014
AddressSusanville, CA 96127
Receiving waterHONEY LAKE
SubwatershedWendel Canyon-Frontal Honey Lake (HUC 180800031501)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 137 are shown.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH6600
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant6300
Arsenic, total recoverable5300
Boron, total recoverable4300
Molybdenum, total recoverable4300
Zinc, total recoverable3300
Lead, total recoverable3300
Copper, total recoverable3300
Mercury, total recoverable3300
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]2300
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit3150
Cyanide, total [as CN]300
Selenium, total recoverable300
Thallium, total recoverable300
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]300
Chromium, hexavalent [as Cr]300
Chromium, trivalent [as Cr]300
Nickel, total recoverable300
Silver total recoverable300
Cadmium, total recoverable300
Antimony, total recoverable300
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol300
Dichlorobromomethane300
Carbon tetrachloride300
1,2-Dichloroethane300
Bromoform300
Dibromochloromethane300
Chloroform300
Toluene300
Benzene300
.delta.-BHC300
Acenaphthylene300
Acenaphthene300
Acrolein300
Acrylonitrile300
Anthracene300
Benzo[b]fluoranthene300
Benzo[k]fluoranthene300
Benzo[a]pyrene300
Bis[2-chloroethyl] ether300
Bis[2-chloroethoxy]methane300
Bis[2-chloroisopropyl] ether300
Butyl benzyl phthalate300
Chlorobenzene300
Chrysene300
Diethyl phthalate300
Dimethyl phthalate300
1,2-Diphenylhydrazine300
Endosulfan sulfate300
.beta.-Endosulfan300
.alpha.-Endosulfan300
Endrin aldehyde300
Ethylbenzene300
Fluoranthene300
Fluorene300
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene300
Hexachlorobutadiene300
Hexachloroethane300
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene300
Isophorone300

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CA0103055.

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 CA0103055.

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 September 15, 2026.