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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXS001701

CITY OF PASADENA MS4, Pasadena, TX: NPDES TXS001701 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CITY OF PASADENA MS4, held by PASADENA,CITY OF, holds NPDES permit TXS001701, which discharges to Various Ditched, Houston Ship Chann. EPA’s file records it issued August 15, 2018 and expiring August 15, 2023. 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 filedCITY OF PASADENA MS4
Permittee as filedPASADENA,CITY OF
NPDES IDTXS001701
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramLarge municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedAugust 15, 2018
Expiration dateAugust 15, 2023
AddressPasadena, TX 77501
Receiving waterVARIOUS DITCHED, HOUSTON SHIP CHANN
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedVince Bayou-Buffalo Bayou (HUC 120401040703)

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
pH241220
Temperature, water deg. centigrade12700
Phosphorus, dissolved12680
Nitrogen, total [as N]12620
Phosphorus, total [as P]12620
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]12580
E. coli12580
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]12550
Oil & Grease12540
Cyanide, free [amenable to chlorination]12540
Solids, total dissolved12540
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C12530
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]12530
Solids, total suspended12530
Enterococci12530
Cadmium, total [as Cd]12520
Mercury, total [as Hg]12520
Copper, total [as Cu]12510
Lead, total [as Pb]12510
Nickel, total [as Ni]12510
Silver, total [as Ag]12510
Zinc, total [as Zn]12510
Atrazine12320
Diazinon0280
Enterococci: group D, MF trans, M-E, EIA0100
Coliform, fecal general0100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TXS001701.

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 TXS001701.

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.