Violations and Permit Triggers

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This report includes both permit violations and permit triggers. Permit triggers are not violations but rather when triggered require the permit holder to take an action defined in the permit. Benchmark exceedances and design criteria (85%) exceedances are permit triggers and not permit violations.

If the “is addressed” column in this report states “yes” then Ecology has taken an informal or formal action to address the violation or permit trigger. It does not refer to any action taken by the permit holder. Ecology’s performance goal is to address all permit violations for individual permits. The report includes NA (not applicable) for general permits.

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More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish9/1/2024N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   480 Leung: Due to high flows from the end of August, the chlorine contact time was shorter in the first week of this month. The effluent fecal coliform levels were elevated during that week. Then they reduced flows from the Primary Clarifiers to Trickling Filer/Solids Contact System resulting in increasing detention time in the chlorine contact channels. The effluent fecal coliform levels were back to normal. They also took additional effluent samples (fecal coliform, total residual chlorine (TRC)) at the downstream effluent line near the Port Gardner site and compared the sampling results at the South Effluent Pump Station (SEPS). Please see their DMR attachments for data summary. At SEPS location, monitoring data met TRC limits but not fecal coliform weekly Geometric Mean limit. At downstream effluent line location, monitoring data met fecal coliform limits and TRC limits.  
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish8/1/2024N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   0.541613 Leung: The permittee notified Ecology when they were aware of this condition. Due to unknown reasons, chlorine demands were higher during the monitoring period. To meet fecal coliform limits, excess chlorine feeds were required. They also took additional effluent samples (fecal coliform, total residual chlorine (TRC)) at the downstream effluent line near the Port Gardner site and compared the sampling results at the South Effluent Pump Station (SEPS). Please see their DMR attachments for data summary. At SEPS location, monitoring data met fecal coliform limits but not TRC limit. At downstream effluent line location, monitoring data met fecal coliform limits and TRC limits.   
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish7/1/2024N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   508    
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish9/1/2023N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   70    
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish9/1/2023N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   76.8    
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish11/1/2022N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   32.3214    
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish3/14/2021N/AMonitoring ViolationsAnalysis not Conducted     Lane: Everett provided timely notification and thorough explanation of incident (see e-mails 3/15, 3/16, 3/18), and conducted thorough follow up (updated pump station logic, updated SOP, training). New station logic in particular will prevent recurrence.   
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish3/14/2021N/AMonitoring ViolationsAnalysis not Conducted     Lane: Everett provided timely notification and thorough explanation of incident (see e-mails 3/15, 3/16, 3/18), and conducted thorough follow up (updated pump station logic, updated SOP, training). New station logic in particular will prevent recurrence.   
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish11/1/2020N/AEffluent ViolationsNumeric effluent violation   31.725 Everett emailed Ecology an explanation and detailed actions being taken to lower ammonia at the time. The ultimate exceedance ended up being small. Will monitor.  
More Info Everett Water Pollution Control Facility WA0024490ActiveMunicipal NPDES IPEVERETTSnohomish7/1/2020N/AMonitoring ViolationsAnalysis not Conducted     LANE: Facility notified us mid-July about a bad BOD run (all results were ND due to a QC problem) on 7/4, so there were only two days of NBOD + CBOD loading inste ad of the required 4.   
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