Virginia NPDES permit search
Status, expiry and violations for 225 municipal wastewater permits · issued by VDEQ as VPDES permits
In short
How do I look up an NPDES permit in Virginia?
Search this page by permit number or plant name for a municipal plant’s permit status, expiry date and violations. For the official file, search DEQ’s list of VPDES permits or DEQ’s PEEP tracker. EPA’s ECHO database shows the monitoring results and violations of every permit. The 2,143 industrial permits in Virginia are listed in Klarifi with a free account.
Links to official sources checked September 2026.
Effective
219
Administratively continued
4
Expired
1
Plants with effluent violations, 3 years
161
Where to find official Virginia NPDES records
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) runs the NPDES program in Virginia under authorization from EPA Region 3, as the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES). It issues and enforces the permits and keeps the official file: applications, permits, fact sheets and monitoring reports. Virginia Energy, not DEQ, issues the VPDES permits of surface coal mines. VDEQ website ↗
permits
DEQ’s VPDES page has a downloadable Excel list of the current individual permits, with locations and contacts. For a specific permit, DEQ refers you to the regional office for the area.
applications
DEQ’s Permitting Enhancement and Evaluation Platform tracks applications in progress or recently decided: filter by facility name or locality and open “View Details” for the steps and target dates.
permits · DMRs · inspections · violations · enforcement
EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online. Search water facilities by permit number, name or city; the Detailed Facility Report lists inspections, violations and enforcement actions, and Effluent Charts plot monitoring results against the permit limits.
- Permit numbers
- Individual VPDES permits are numbered VA00 plus five digits (VA0087718). General-permit coverages have their own prefixes, such as VAR05 for industrial stormwater and VAN0 for the Chesapeake Bay nutrient permit.
- Discharge monitoring reports
- Through DEQ’s own e-DMR in the myDEQ portal, since August 2022. Electronic reports are required for individual permits and some general permits.
- Violations and enforcement
- DEQ’s enforcement case documents ↗
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Virginia
Most NPDES permits are not held by municipal plants. EPA’s permit database lists 2,143 individual permits in force for industrial and commercial facilities in Virginia (manufacturers, food processors, mines, power plants, landfills), 116 of them major dischargers, plus 6,515 facilities covered by a general permit, mostly for stormwater. 399 of the individual permits recorded at least one effluent violation in the last three years.
| Facility | Permit | Status | Expires | Effluent violations |
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Unlock 2,143 industrial permits in Virginia
Search every industrial and commercial discharger in Virginia by name or permit number, with permit status, expiry and violation history. Free with a Klarifi account.
Industrial and commercial NPDES permits in Virginia: permits in force (effective or administratively continued) held by facilities EPA does not class as publicly owned treatment works or federal facilities. Source: EPA ICIS-NPDES via Klarifi, October 2026.
Violations at Virginia wastewater plants
161 of the 225 municipal plants on this page recorded at least one effluent violation, a monitored value above a permit limit, in the last three years, and 168 had a violation of any kind, including late or missing monitoring reports. Each plant’s page shows its own count. EPA’s enforcement records list 15 formal cases naming Virginia wastewater plants, 0 of them since fiscal year 2020, with $226,130 in penalties assessed. Enforcement cases in Virginia →
Permit renewals by year
An NPDES permit runs for five years. To keep discharging, a plant must apply for renewal at least 180 days before the expiry date, and the renewed permit usually arrives with tighter effluent limits, new monitoring requirements or a compliance schedule. That is why the year a permit expires is the year a plant starts budgeting for upgrades: nutrient removal, disinfection, capacity or controls.
2029: 38 permits
2030: 63 permits
2031: 22 permits
Largest permit holders in Virginia
| Facility | City | Avg flow (MGD) | Design (MGD) | NPDES permit | Status | Expires | Violations (3y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond WWTP | Richmond | 60.7 | — | VAL063177 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 31 |
| Arlington County Water Pollution Control Plant | Arlington | 20.89 | 40 | VA0025143 | Administratively continued | Nov 2024 | 4 |
| Noman M Cole Jr Pollution Control Plant | Lorton | 34.89 | — | VAL025364 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 0 |
| H L Mooney Water Reclamation Facility | Woodbridge | 14.38 | 24 | VA0025101 | Effective | Oct 2030 | 0 |
| Falling Creek Sewage Treatment Plant Chesterfied County Board | Richmond | 9.61 | — | VAL024996 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 2 |
| Middle River Regional WWTP | Verona | 2.99 | 6.8 | VA0064793 | Effective | Feb 2031 | 0 |
| Front Royal WWTP | Front Royal | 3.82 | 5.3 | VA0062812 | Effective | Oct 2028 | 2 |
| City Of Danville Northside WWTP | Danville | 4.7 | — | VAL060593 | Effective | Dec 2030 | 5 |
| Maple Ave WWTP | South Boston | 1.71 | 4 | VA0020362 | Effective | Aug 2029 | 42 |
| Wytheville WWTP | Wytheville | 1.71 | 4 | VA0020281 | Effective | Apr 2029 | 94 |
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Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 12, 2026.
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