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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAR050717

GERDAU METALS RECYCLING - ROANOKE, Roanoke, VA: NPDES VAR050717 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GERDAU METALS RECYCLING - ROANOKE, held by Chaparral (Virginia) Inc., holds NPDES permit VAR050717, which discharges to Roanoke River-Peters Creek. 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 GERDAU METALS RECYCLING - ROANOKE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Roanoke, Virginia, its receiving water, and 8 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAR050717.

Identity

Facility as filedGERDAU METALS RECYCLING - ROANOKE
Permittee as filedChaparral (Virginia) Inc.
NPDES IDVAR050717
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
AddressRoanoke, VA 24014
Receiving waterRoanoke River-Peters Creek
SubwatershedPeters Creek-Roanoke River (HUC 030101010404)

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 suspended1400
Iron, total recoverable700
Zinc, total recoverable700
Aluminum, total recoverable700
Cadmium, total recoverable700
Lead, total recoverable700
Chromium, total recoverable700
Copper, total recoverable700

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES VAR050717.

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 VAR050717.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 14, 2026.