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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GMG290314

DEEP GULF ENERGY LP, Houston, TX: NPDES GMG290314 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

DEEP GULF ENERGY LP holds NPDES permit GMG290314. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2012 and expiring September 30, 2017. 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 filedDEEP GULF ENERGY LP
Permittee as filedDEEP GULF ENERGY LP
NPDES IDGMG290314
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 28, 2012
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2017
AddressHouston, TX 77079
SubwatershedSpring Branch-Buffalo Bayou (HUC 120401040303)

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
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)1822March 31, 2015
Whole effluent toxicity2600
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia1800
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)1800
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia1800
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)1800
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia1800
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)1800
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia1800
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)1800
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia1800
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)1800
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia1800
Critical Dilution1300
Misc. free oil in Western GOM, OCS1200
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)900
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia900
Well fluids, oil & grease800
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopis bahia)800
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia800
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)800
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Menidia menidia800
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)800
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia800
Drilling fluid, toxicity600
Discharge drill cuttings, base fluids retained600
Discharge drill cuttings, sediment toxicity400
Discharge drill cuttings, formation oil400
Flow400
Well fluids, free oil400
Drilling fluid, end of well, 96-hr LC50300
Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight300
Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight300
Drilling fluids, free oil300
Drilling fluids, discharge rate300
Drill cuttings, free oil300
Stock base fluid, PAH200
Stock base fluid, sediment toxicity200
Stock base fluid, biodegredation rate200
Deck drainage, free oil200
Produced water, oil and grease200
Sanitary waste, residual chlorine200
Sanitary waste, solids200
Domestic waste, foam and floating solids200
Produced water, free oil100
Produced water, flow100
Maintenance Waste: Do you have a BMP?100
Maintenance Waste: Are you using a BMP?100

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 GMG290314.

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.