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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0025542

COVINGTON CITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, Covington, VA: NPDES VA0025542 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COVINGTON CITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, held by Covington City, holds NPDES permit VA0025542, which discharges to Jackson River-Pounding Mill Creek. EPA’s file records it issued January 29, 2019 and expiring January 31, 2024. 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 filedCOVINGTON CITY - WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permittee as filedCovington City
NPDES IDVA0025542
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 29, 2019
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2024
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressCovington, VA 24426
Receiving waterJackson River-Pounding Mill Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedPounding Mill Creek-Jackson River (HUC 020802010504)

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
E. coli166April 30, 201256% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal066June 30, 2026143% over the limit
Solids, total suspended455August 31, 2022742% over the limit
pH233April 30, 2026
Coliform, fecal general022September 30, 200099,999% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant220
Phosphorus, total [as P]510
Nitrogen, total [as N]410
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C400
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia100
TU Static Renewal 7-Day Chronic Pimphales promelas100

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

The newest 50 of 110.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
June 23, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 22, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 17, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 1, 2026WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 31, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 14, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 16, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 15, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 31, 2025WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 8, 2024WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 21, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 7, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 13, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
March 3, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 17, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 12, 2023WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 22, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 15, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 7, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
December 6, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 15, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
November 11, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 16, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 31, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
July 27, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 27, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 24, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
May 6, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 18, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 7, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 3, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 1, 2022WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 29, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
October 25, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 22, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
September 21, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 31, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 29, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 18, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
August 16, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 12, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 11, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 10, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 8, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 7, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
June 4, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
April 10, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 18, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
January 25, 2021WW SSO - Discharge to WatersST6
February 9, 2020Effluent 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 15, 2026.