Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OH0001392

NASA GRC AT THE NEIL A. ARMSTRONG TEST FACILITY, Sandusky, OH: NPDES OH0001392 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NASA GRC AT THE NEIL A. ARMSTRONG TEST FACILITY, held by NASA Plum Brook Station, holds NPDES permit OH0001392, which discharges to Plum Brook And Piper Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2019 and expiring September 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	NASA GRC AT THE NEIL A. ARMSTRONG TEST FACILITY
Permittee as filed	NASA Plum Brook Station
NPDES ID	OH0001392
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 1, 2019
Expiration date	September 30, 2022
Address	Sandusky, OH 44870
Receiving water	Plum Brook and Piper Creek
Subwatershed	Pipe Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay (HUC 041000110102)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
14Under 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
pH	6	23	17	March 31, 2015
Lead, total recoverable	2	8	6	June 30, 2007	728% over the limit
Oil and grease [soxhlet extr.] tot.	2	4	2	January 31, 2013	28% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	0	14	1	June 30, 2010	374% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	6	0
Color, spectrophoto-metric filter	4	4	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	4	0
Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C	4	4	0
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]	2	2	0
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]	2	2	0
Nickel, total recoverable	2	2	0
Zinc, total recoverable	2	2	0
Chromium, total recoverable	2	2	0
Copper, 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 OH0001392.

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 14, 2026.