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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES OR0044733

PORTLAND WATER BUREAU, Portland, OR: NPDES OR0044733 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PORTLAND WATER BUREAU, held by CAROLLO ENGINEERS, INC., holds NPDES permit OR0044733, which discharges to Columbia Slough. EPA’s file records it issued November 15, 2023 and expiring October 31, 2028. 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.

What the register holds for PORTLAND WATER BUREAU: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Portland, Oregon, its receiving water, and 12 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES OR0044733.

Identity

Facility as filedPORTLAND WATER BUREAU
Permittee as filedCAROLLO ENGINEERS, INC.
NPDES IDOR0044733
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 15, 2023
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2028
Issuing agencyOregon Department of Environmental Quality
AddressPortland, OR 97230
Receiving waterColumbia Slough
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedColumbia Slough-Frontal Columbia River (HUC 170900120201)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C300
Volume, total300
pH200
Chlorine, total residual200
Temperature, water deg. centigrade100
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]100
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]100
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]100
Report due [yrmoda]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES OR0044733.

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 OR0044733.

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 15, 2026.