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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0004791

BONTEX INC, Buena Vista, VA: NPDES VA0004791 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BONTEX INC, held by Bontex, Inc., holds NPDES permit VA0004791, which discharges to Maury River-Bennetts Run. EPA’s file records it issued October 29, 2019 and expiring October 31, 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.

What the register holds for BONTEX INC: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Buena Vista, Virginia, its receiving water, and 6 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VA0004791.

Identity

Facility as filedBONTEX INC
Permittee as filedBontex, Inc.
NPDES IDVA0004791
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
IssuedOctober 29, 2019
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2024
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressBuena Vista, VA 24416
Receiving waterMaury River-Bennetts Run
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBennetts Run-Maury River (HUC 020802020501)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C200
pH200
Solids, total suspended200
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Toxic Units Static 48HR Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VA0004791.

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 VA0004791.

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.