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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0062197

RW MILLER ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION, Palo Pinto, TX: NPDES TX0062197 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RW MILLER ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION, held by RW MILLER POWER LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0062197, which discharges to Directly To Lake Palo Pinto. EPA’s file records it issued June 11, 2019 and expiring June 11, 2024. 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 filedRW MILLER ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION
Permittee as filedRW MILLER POWER LLC
NPDES IDTX0062197
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 11, 2019
Expiration dateJune 11, 2024
AddressPalo Pinto, TX 76484
Receiving waterDIRECTLY TO LAKE PALO PINTO
SubwatershedPalo Pinto Lake-Palo Pinto Creek (HUC 120602010905)

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
Solids, total suspended144133October 31, 2023310% over the limit
Oil & Grease15147August 31, 2019290% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit255July 31, 20143% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2091November 30, 20042,700% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual3490
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8160
Pass/Fail Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pinephales promelas8140
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8120
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8120
NOEC Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas8120
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8120
NOEC Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas8120
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8120
LOEC Lethal Survival Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas8120
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia8120
LOEC Sub-Lethal Reproduction Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas8120
Low Flow Pass/Fail Survival Test Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas8100
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #21480
Copper, total [as Cu]560
IC25 Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas060
IC25 Sub-Lethal Static Renewal 7 Day Chronic Pimephales promelas060
Whole effluent toxicity - retest #11440
pH840
Iron, total [as Fe]240
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute D. Pulex230
LC50 Pass/Fail Static 24Hr Acute Pimephales promelas230
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]110
Aluminum, total [as Al]400
Sulfate, total [as SO4]100
Solids, total dissolved100

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 TX0062197.

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.