Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NY0005061

WALLOOMSAC RECYCLING, North Hoosick, NY: NPDES NY0005061 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WALLOOMSAC RECYCLING, held by WALLOOMSAC METAL RECYCLING LTD, holds NPDES permit NY0005061, which discharges to Walloomsac R. EPA’s file records it issued September 19, 2006 and expiring February 29, 2012. 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	WALLOOMSAC RECYCLING
Permittee as filed	WALLOOMSAC METAL RECYCLING LTD
NPDES ID	NY0005061
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 19, 2006
Expiration date	February 29, 2012
Issuing agency	NYSDEC
Address	North Hoosick, NY 12090
Receiving water	WALLOOMSAC R
Subwatershed	Walloomsac River (HUC 020200030704)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
15With 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	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	11	7	February 29, 2004	137% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	18	3	March 31, 2003	60% over the limit
Net rate of additionof heat	1	5	2	July 31, 2002	64% over the limit
Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]	2	11	1	July 31, 2006	144% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	19	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	10	0
Cyanide, free [amenable to chlorination]	2	9	0
pH	2	6	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	4	0
Solids, settleable	2	4	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	2	2	0
Nickel, total [as Ni]	2	2	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	2	0
Aluminum, dissolved [as Al]	2	2	0
Phenolics, total recoverable	2	2	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 NY0005061.

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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Nearby on the register

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