Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NV0020150

TRUCKEE MEADOWS WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY, Reno, NV: NPDES NV0020150 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
148Pollutants under a numeric limit
18Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TRUCKEE MEADOWS WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY, held by SPARKS, CITY OF, holds NPDES permit NV0020150, which discharges to Truckee River Via Steamboat Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 30, 2003 and expiring October 14, 2008. 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	TRUCKEE MEADOWS WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY
Permittee as filed	SPARKS, CITY OF
NPDES ID	NV0020150
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 30, 2003
Expiration date	October 14, 2008
Address	Reno, NV 89502
Receiving water	TRUCKEE RIVER VIA STEAMBOAT CREEK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Sugarloaf Peak (HUC 160501020401)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

160Pollutants on file
148Under a numeric limit
158With a violation of any kind
18With 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; the 60 with the most exceedances of 160 are shown.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Nitrogen, total [as N]	5	70	30	December 31, 2001	535% over the limit
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	2	44	22	February 28, 2019	585% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia, tot unionized [as N]	0	49	21	May 31, 2001	3,800% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	0	44	10	July 31, 2001	99,999% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	30	10	July 31, 2017	33% over the limit
E. coli	2	20	10	May 31, 2023	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved	3	57	9	December 31, 2025	11% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	0	30	9	December 31, 2002	325% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	7	101	7	November 30, 2014	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	38	7	January 31, 2023	505% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	23	7	June 30, 2017	26% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	37	6	December 31, 2022	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	7	97	3	January 31, 1997	40,206% over the limit
Phosphate, total, color method [as P]	0	22	2	November 30, 2001	146% over the limit
Temperature Increase Deg. C	0	8	2	December 31, 2022	90% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	25	1	January 31, 1997	1% over the limit
pH	2	13	1	August 31, 1998
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	1	1	May 31, 2004
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	1	51	0
pH, maximum	0	28	0
pH, minimum	0	28	0
Nitrogen, organic, dissolved [as N]	2	20	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	20	0
Flow rate	0	20	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	19	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	17	0
Carbon, dissolved organic [as C]	0	12	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	10	0
Phosphate, dissolved color method [as P]	0	10	0
BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal	0	6	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	0	4	0
Cyanide, total [as CN]	2	3	0
Asbestos	2	3	0
Arsenic, total recoverable	2	3	0
Selenium, total recoverable	2	3	0
Thallium, total recoverable	2	3	0
Beryllium, total recoverable [as Be]	2	3	0
Nickel, total recoverable	2	3	0
Silver total recoverable	2	3	0
Zinc, total recoverable	2	3	0
Cadmium, total recoverable	2	3	0
Lead, total recoverable	2	3	0
Chromium, total recoverable	2	3	0
Copper, total recoverable	2	3	0
Antimony, total recoverable	2	3	0
2-Methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol	2	3	0
Dichlorobromomethane	2	3	0
Carbon tetrachloride	2	3	0
1,2-Dichloroethane	2	3	0
Bromoform	2	3	0
Dibromochloromethane	2	3	0
Chloroform	2	3	0
Toluene	2	3	0
Benzene	2	3	0
.delta.-BHC	2	3	0
Acenaphthylene	2	3	0
Acenaphthene	2	3	0
Acrolein	2	3	0
Acrylonitrile	2	3	0
Anthracene	2	3	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 NV0020150.

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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