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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NYR00C198

ELMIRA VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FACILITY, Elmira, NY: NPDES NYR00C198 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ELMIRA VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FACILITY, held by UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, holds NPDES permit NYR00C198, which discharges to Newtown Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2012 and expiring August 13, 2022. 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 filedELMIRA VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FACILITY
Permittee as filedUNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
NPDES IDNYR00C198
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeFederal facility
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedSeptember 28, 2012
Expiration dateAugust 13, 2022
Issuing agencyNYSDEC
AddressElmira, NY 14902
Receiving waterNEWTOWN CREEK
SubwatershedLower Newtown Creek (HUC 020501050503)

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
Oil & Grease020
Toluene020
Benzene020
Ethylbenzene020
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]020
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NYR00C198.

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 NYR00C198.

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.