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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR050424

ASHEVILLE MICA COMPANY, Newport News, VA: NPDES VAR050424 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ASHEVILLE MICA COMPANY, held by Asheville Mica Company, holds NPDES permit VAR050424, which discharges to Hampton Roads-Hampton River. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2019 and expiring June 30, 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 ASHEVILLE MICA COMPANY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Newport News, Virginia, its receiving water, and 3 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAR050424.

Identity

Facility as filedASHEVILLE MICA COMPANY
Permittee as filedAsheville Mica Company
NPDES IDVAR050424
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJuly 1, 2019
Expiration dateJune 30, 2024
Issuing agencyVA DEQ
AddressNewport News, VA 23607
Receiving waterHampton Roads-Hampton River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHampton River-Hampton Roads (HUC 020802080303)

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 suspended100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR050424.

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 VAR050424.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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.