EPA · National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Clean Water Act discharge permits
Anyone who discharges to a river, lake or coastal water in the United States holds an NPDES permit: sewage treatment plants, factories, livestock operations, mines, municipal storm sewers and construction sites. These pages group the current register by state, by city, by the watershed the discharge reaches, and by the kind of operation permitted.
- 398,004Current permits
- 5,886Major dischargers
- 1,923Subbasins
By state
- Alaska3,110
- Alabama13,475
- Arkansas5,333
- American Samoa7
- Arizona7,318
- California3,312
- Colorado8,712
- Connecticut1,045
- District of Columbia309
- Delaware92
- Florida23,564
- Georgia45,725
- GE108
- GM5
- Guam232
- Hawaii2,939
- Iowa1,610
- Idaho4,607
- Illinois10,926
- Indiana13,164
- Kansas5,445
- Kentucky5,741
- Louisiana4,455
- Massachusetts6,154
- Maryland2,041
- Maine829
- Michigan3,396
- Minnesota1,802
- Missouri13,736
- Northern Mariana Islands35
- Mississippi3,066
- Montana4,574
- North Carolina19,518
- North Dakota3,594
- Nebraska1,171
- New Hampshire1,994
- New Jersey15,347
- New Mexico5,500
- Nevada311
- New York11,145
- Ohio2,882
- Oklahoma678
- Oregon1,616
- Pennsylvania14,586
- Puerto Rico1,076
- Rhode Island642
- South Carolina13,763
- South Dakota2,151
- Tennessee12,924
- Texas39,714
- Utah17,184
- Virginia13,137
- U.S. Virgin Islands65
- Vermont1,103
- Washington8,573
- Wisconsin5,859
- West Virginia3,734
- Wyoming1,686
- XX56
By what is permitted
- Biosolids5,262
- Combined sewer overflows241
- Construction stormwater195,757
- Industrial pretreatment202
- Industrial stormwater43,383
- Concentrated animal feeding operations2,738
- Large municipal storm sewer systems430
- Small municipal storm sewer systems1,334
- Publicly owned treatment works14,960
By permit type
- Associated permit records5,774
- General permit coverage335,708
- Individual industrial user permits5,284
- Master general permits1,076
- Individual permits48,616
- State-issued individual permits1,508
- State-issued master general permits38
By watershed
Every permit is placed on the national Watershed Boundary Dataset, so a discharge can be read at the scale it matters: the subbasin, the watershed inside it, or the subwatershed the outfall sits in.
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