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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0025151

WAYNESBORO WWTP, Waynesboro, VA: NPDES VA0025151 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WAYNESBORO WWTP, held by Waynesboro City, holds NPDES permit VA0025151, which discharges to South River-Porterfield Run. EPA’s file records it issued January 31, 2020 and expiring January 31, 2025. 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 filedWAYNESBORO WWTP
Permittee as filedWaynesboro City
NPDES IDVA0025151
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedJanuary 31, 2020
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2025
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressWaynesboro, VA 22980
Receiving waterSouth River-Porterfield Run
SubwatershedPorterfield Run-South River (HUC 020700050704)

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
Chlorine, total residual088September 30, 199970% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]811June 30, 199915% over the limit
pH211August 31, 1999
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]111September 30, 19998% over the limit
Solids, total suspended400
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Phosphorus, Total As P200
Phosphorus, total [as P]100
E. coli100
Nitrogen, Total As N100

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 18, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 12, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 9, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 2, 2024Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
January 28, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 9, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 22, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 23, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 28, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 7, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 7, 2021Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
April 13, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 27, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 13, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 19, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 24, 2020Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
November 30, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 12, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 15, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 23, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 22, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 30, 2020WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 28, 2019WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 21, 2018WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 20, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
December 15, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
November 26, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 28, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 25, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 17, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
September 9, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
August 6, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 31, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
July 11, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6
May 31, 2018WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 20, 2018WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 5, 2017Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6

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.