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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NY0088188

COLONIE LOCOMOTIVE SHOPS, Watervliet, NY: NPDES NY0088188 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLONIE LOCOMOTIVE SHOPS, held by DH ESTATES, INC, holds NPDES permit NY0088188, which discharges to Kromma Kill. EPA’s file records it issued August 29, 2007 and expiring January 31, 2013. 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 filedCOLONIE LOCOMOTIVE SHOPS
Permittee as filedDH ESTATES, INC
NPDES IDNY0088188
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
IssuedAugust 29, 2007
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2013
Issuing agencyNYSDEC
AddressWatervliet, NY 12189
Receiving waterKROMMA KILL
SubwatershedRensselaer Lake-Hudson River (HUC 020200060302)

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.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Solids, settleable14111July 31, 20151,400% over the limit
pH4902July 31, 2004
Flow rate3480
Oil & Grease2450
Solids, total suspended1300
Toluene2140
Benzene2140
Ethylbenzene2140
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]2140

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 NY0088188.

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.