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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GMG290358

HALL-HOUSTON EXPLORATION III, LP, Houston, TX: NPDES GMG290358 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HALL-HOUSTON EXPLORATION III, LP, held by HALL-HOUSTON EXPLOR., III LP, holds NPDES permit GMG290358. EPA’s file records it issued June 7, 2007 and expiring September 30, 2012. 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 filedHALL-HOUSTON EXPLORATION III, LP
Permittee as filedHALL-HOUSTON EXPLOR., III LP
NPDES IDGMG290358
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
IssuedJune 7, 2007
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2012
AddressHouston, TX 77027
SubwatershedCity of Houston-Buffalo Bayou (HUC 120401040305)

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
Whole effluent toxicity221920
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)221320
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia221320
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)221320
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia221320
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)221320
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia221320
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)221320
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia221320
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)221320
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia221320
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)221320
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia221320
Misc. free oil in Western GOM, OCS22960
Critical Dilution0960
Well fluids, oil & grease22840
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)11660
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia11660
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopis bahia)22600
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia22600
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)11600
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Menidia menidia11600
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)0600
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia0600
Deck drainage, free oil11420
Well fluids, free oil11420
Sanitary waste, residual chlorine11420
Sanitary waste, solids11420
Domestic waste, foam and floating solids11420
Flow11300
Maintenance Waste: Do you have a BMP?11300
Maintenance Waste: Are you using a BMP?11300
Produced water, oil and grease22240
Drilling fluid, toxicity22120
Produced water, free oil11120
Produced water, flow11120
Drilling fluid, end of well, 96-hr LC501160
Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight1160
Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight1160
Drilling fluids, free oil1160
Drilling fluids, discharge rate1160
Drill cuttings, free oil1160

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GMG290358.

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 GMG290358.

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.