Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PR0025542

PRASA SABANA GRANDE WWTP, Sabana Grande, PR: NPDES PR0025542 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
31Pollutants under a numeric limit
28Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PRASA SABANA GRANDE WWTP, held by PRASA SABANA GRANDE STP, holds NPDES permit PR0025542, which discharges to Guanajibo River. EPA’s file records it issued September 8, 2003 and expiring September 30, 2008. 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	PRASA SABANA GRANDE WWTP
Permittee as filed	PRASA SABANA GRANDE STP
NPDES ID	PR0025542
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 8, 2003
Expiration date	September 30, 2008
Address	Sabana Grande, PR 00747
Receiving water	GUANAJIBO RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Rio Guanajibo at mouth (HUC 210100030409)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

33Pollutants on file
31Under a numeric limit
33With a violation of any kind
28With 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
Solids, total suspended	8	94	65	November 30, 2009	283% over the limit
Color [PT-CO units]	2	69	65	June 30, 2007
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	91	62	July 31, 2008	99,999% over the limit
Phenolics, total recoverable	2	66	55	May 31, 2006	41,300% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	56	51	September 30, 2005	122% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	53	49	November 30, 2009	293,154% over the limit
Ammonia & ammonium- total	0	51	48	April 30, 2001	99,900% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	45	41	October 31, 2009	2,220% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	2	46	39	November 30, 2009	293% over the limit
Surfactants [MBAS]	2	32	28	February 29, 2008	12,338% over the limit
Sulfide, total [as S]	1	34	23	September 30, 2007	49,900% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	30	22	September 30, 2009	381% over the limit
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	26	22	November 30, 2009	700% over the limit
Arsenic, total [as As]	2	37	21	May 31, 2007	8,789% over the limit
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	34	21	April 30, 2007	116,356% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	21	14	July 31, 2007	160% over the limit
Coliform, total general	2	24	13	February 28, 2009	99,999% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	2	16	12	February 28, 2009	7,030% over the limit
Ammonia nitrogen, total, [as N] 30 day	2	15	11	January 31, 2008	28% over the limit
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	25	10	October 31, 2006	458% over the limit
Cyanide, total [as CN]	2	21	9	April 30, 2006	573% over the limit
Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit	1	15	9	February 28, 2009	400% over the limit
Turbidity	2	12	8	October 31, 2007
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	11	7	December 31, 2008	40% over the limit
Manganese, total [as Mn]	0	13	5	January 31, 2002	100% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	11	2	September 30, 2005	52% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	6	1	December 31, 2003	723% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved- 180 deg. C	2	5	1	February 28, 2007	7% over the limit
Whole effluent toxicity	1	93	0
Sulfide-hydrogen sulfide [undissociated]	2	64	0
pH	2	10	0
Solids, settleable	1	6	0
Fluoride, total [as F]	1	1	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 PR0025542.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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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