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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0073091

GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO-NORFOLK - LIGON FACILITY, Norfolk, VA: NPDES VA0073091 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO-NORFOLK - LIGON FACILITY, held by Metro Machine Corp dba General Dynamics NASSCO-Nor, holds NPDES permit VA0073091, which discharges to Southern Branch Elizabeth River-Deep Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 22, 2020 and expiring May 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 filedGENERAL DYNAMICS NASSCO-NORFOLK - LIGON FACILITY
Permittee as filedMetro Machine Corp dba General Dynamics NASSCO-Nor
NPDES IDVA0073091
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
IssuedMay 22, 2020
Expiration dateMay 31, 2025
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressNorfolk, VA 23523
Receiving waterSouthern Branch Elizabeth River-Deep Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedDeep Creek-Southern Branch Elizabeth River (HUC 020802080203)

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 suspended5148May 31, 2019138% over the limit
Petrol hydrocarbons, total recoverable587July 31, 2021275% over the limit
pH10142June 30, 2016
Copper, total recoverable432September 30, 202532% over the limit
Zinc, total recoverable421September 30, 20256% over the limit
TU Static 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)011September 30, 202539% over the limit
Copper, dissolved [as Cu]160
Zinc, dissolved [as Zn]160
Precipitation volume340
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant310
Temperature, water deg. centigrade100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100

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 VA0073091.

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.