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Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) Permit Outfalls

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Updated Nov 4, 2026

About this dataset

<p>This dataset consists of the outfall locations for all Water VPDES Individual and General Permits.<span>  </span>There are nine (9) General Permits; Concrete Products; Domestic Sewage Discharge; Noncontact Cooling Water, Nonmetallic Mineral Mining; Petroleum and Hydrostatic Test; Potable Water Treatment Plant, Seafood Processing; Stormwater Industrial; and Vehicle Wash and Laundry.<span>  </span>There is a single VPDES Individual Permit, but these are designated as either Major or Minor permits depending on the amount of flow or if they require EPA review.</p><i>This dataset is updated daily. Note that the 'date modified' metadata is not reflective of these daily row-level data updates.</i><br /><br /> <p>These data layer shows where discharges from the permitted sites enters State Waters.<span>  </span>This dataset will allow the public to find discharges to particular streams or relative to where they live, work or play.<span>  </span>Additional information about these discharges may be found by contacting the DEQ regional office responsible for that area (<a href='https://www.deq.virginia.gov/Locations.aspx' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='color:#0070C0;'>https://www.deq.virginia.gov/Locations.aspx</span></a><span style='color:#0070C0;'> </span>).</p><p><a href='https://gisdata.deq.virginia.gov/mapper_ext/DataFactSheets/Water_Permitting/VPDESOutfallsDEQFactSheet.pdf' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Click Here</a> to view Data Fact Sheet. </p>

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