Pull a facility's Clean Water Act compliance history before subcontracting soft-wash/wastewater-generating work on an industrial site
domain: echo.epa.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Identify the facility's NPDES permit ID, for example via the Wastewater/Stormwater/Biosolids Facility Search service.
Call the Detailed Facility Report REST service with that identifier to pull the facility's compliance record across EPA programs.
Call the Effluent Charts REST service for the same NPDES permit to see permitted effluent limits, actual releases, and any violations over time.
Review recent violation flags before agreeing to work on-site, since repeated exceedances could indicate stricter runoff-containment requirements.
Keep a copy of the pulled compliance snapshot with the job file in case the client later disputes responsibility for any runoff issue.
Known gotchas
These are read-only reporting services drawn from ICIS-NPDES data, which can lag real-world permit status; verify anything critical against the facility's actual permit paperwork.
Effluent Charts data is permit-specific; querying the wrong NPDES ID for a multi-permit facility will show an incomplete compliance picture.
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