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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GMG290512

HERCULES OFFSHORE, Houston, TX: NPDES GMG290512 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HERCULES OFFSHORE holds NPDES permit GMG290512. 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.

What the register holds for HERCULES OFFSHORE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Houston, Texas, and 52 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES GMG290512.

Identity

Facility as filedHERCULES OFFSHORE
Permittee as filedHERCULES OFFSHORE
NPDES IDGMG290512
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
Issuing agencyRegion 6
AddressHouston, TX 77046
SubwatershedCountry Club Bayou-Brays Bayou (HUC 120401040403)

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 toxicity94600
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)57200
Pass/Fail Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia57200
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)57200
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia57200
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)57200
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia57200
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)57200
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia57200
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)57200
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia57200
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (Mysidopsis bahia)57200
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Menidia menidia57200
Misc. free oil in Western GOM, OCS56100
Critical Dilution47300
LF Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopis bahia)37400
Low Flow Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia37400
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)37400
NOAEC Lethal Static Renewal 48HR Acute Menidia menidia37400
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)37400
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Menidia menidia37400
Drilling fluid, toxicity32200
Well fluids, oil & grease32200
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)28600
Coef Of Var Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Menidia menidia28600
Discharge drill cuttings, base fluids retained21600
Flow18700
Deck drainage, free oil18700
Sanitary waste, residual chlorine18700
Sanitary waste, solids18700
Domestic waste, foam and floating solids18700
Maintenance Waste: Do you have a BMP?18600
Maintenance Waste: Are you using a BMP?18600
Drilling fluid, end of well, 96-hr LC5016100
Cadmium [Cd], in barite, dry weight16100
Mercury [Hg], in barite, dry weight16100
Drilling fluids, free oil16100
Drilling fluids, discharge rate16100
Drill cuttings, free oil16100
Well fluids, free oil16100
Discharge drill cuttings, sediment toxicity14400
Discharge drill cuttings, formation oil14400
Stock base fluid, PAH7200
Stock base fluid, sediment toxicity7200
Stock base fluid, biodegredation rate7200
Cooling Water Intake Velocity3600
Screen Area Blockage1200
Intake Velocity Excusions1200
Fish/Shellfish Impinged1200
Cooling Water Baseline Study1200
Cooling Water Entrainment Monitoring Study1200
Cooling Water Intake Inspection1200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES GMG290512.

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 GMG290512.

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.