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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VA0089168

LSYF – SOUTH, Norfolk, VA: NPDES VA0089168 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LSYF – SOUTH, held by LYON SHIPYARD (SEALIFT), holds NPDES permit VA0089168, which discharges to Eastern Branch Elizabeth River. EPA’s file records it issued February 15, 2017 and expiring February 28, 2022. 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 filedLSYF – SOUTH
Permittee as filedLYON SHIPYARD (SEALIFT)
NPDES IDVA0089168
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
IssuedFebruary 15, 2017
Expiration dateFebruary 28, 2022
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressNorfolk, VA 23523
Receiving waterEastern Branch Elizabeth River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedEastern Branch Elizabeth River (HUC 020802080204)

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
TU Static 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)021March 31, 2026880% over the limit
pH480
Zinc, total recoverable250
Copper, total recoverable250
Solids, total suspended240
Precipitation volume240
Petrol hydrocarbons, total recoverable110
TU 48Hr Acute Cyprinodon variegatus010
Nitrogen, total [as N]200
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]200
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]200
Phosphorus, total [as P]200

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 VA0089168.

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.