Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NM0024899
TOWN OF RED RIVER, Taos, NM: NPDES NM0024899 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 28Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
TOWN OF RED RIVER, held by RED RIVER AWWT, TOWN OF, holds NPDES permit NM0024899, which discharges to Red River. EPA’s file records it issued March 9, 2017 and expiring April 30, 2022. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | TOWN OF RED RIVER |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | RED RIVER AWWT, TOWN OF |
| NPDES ID | NM0024899 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | March 9, 2017 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2022 |
| Address | Taos, NM 87558 |
| Receiving water | RED RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Middle Red River (HUC 130201010303) |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 30Pollutants on file
- 28Under a numeric limit
- 27With a violation of any kind
- 7With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminum, total [as Al] | 0 | 67 | 61 | March 31, 2017 | 1,202% over the limit |
| E. coli | 2 | 33 | 29 | July 31, 2025 | 99,999% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 23 | 17 | July 31, 2025 | |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 20 | 16 | August 31, 2011 | 99,999% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 1 | 9 | 7 | January 31, 2022 | 87% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 8 | 7 | January 31, 2022 | 120% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 17 | 3 | July 31, 2025 | 36% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 4 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 3 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Priority pollutants scan [yes/no] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Whole effluent toxicity - retest #1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Whole effluent toxicity - retest #2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Whole Effluent Toxicity - Retest #3 | 6 | 0 | 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 NM0024899.
Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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 14, 2026.