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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GMG290367

WEATHERFORD PIPE. & SPEC SERV, Houston, TX: NPDES GMG290367 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WEATHERFORD PIPE. & SPEC SERV, held by WEATHERFORD PIPELINE & SPECIALTY SERVICES, holds NPDES permit GMG290367. 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 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedWEATHERFORD PIPE. & SPEC SERV
Permittee as filedWEATHERFORD PIPELINE & SPECIALTY SERVICES
NPDES IDGMG290367
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 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 toxicity101300
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)81040
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia81040
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)81040
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia81040
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)81040
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia81040
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)81040
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia81040
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)81040
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia81040
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)81040
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia81040
Well fluids, oil & grease6780
Misc. free oil in Western GOM, OCS5650
Critical Dilution5650
Drilling fluid, toxicity4520
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)4520
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia4520
Deck drainage, free oil3390
Well fluids, free oil3390
Sanitary waste, residual chlorine3390
Sanitary waste, solids3390
Domestic waste, foam and floating solids3390
Drilling fluid, end of well, 96-hr LC502260
Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight2260
Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight2260
Drilling fluids, free oil2260
Drilling fluids, discharge rate2260
Drill cuttings, free oil2260
Produced water, oil and grease2260
Maintenance Waste: Do you have a BMP?2260
Maintenance Waste: Are you using a BMP?2260
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopis bahia)2260
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia2260
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)2260
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Menidia menidia2260
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)2260
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia2260
Flow1130
Produced water, free oil1130
Produced water, flow1130

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GMG290367.

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 GMG290367.

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 15, 2026.