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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CTCSW0023

PFIZER INC., Groton, CT: NPDES CTCSW0023 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PFIZER INC., held by Pfizer Incorporated, holds NPDES permit CTCSW0023. EPA’s file records it issued May 3, 2021 and expiring March 29, 2023. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for PFIZER INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Groton, Connecticut, and 15 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES CTCSW0023.

Identity

Facility as filedPFIZER INC.
Permittee as filedPfizer Incorporated
NPDES IDCTCSW0023
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 3, 2021
Expiration dateMarch 29, 2023
Issuing agencyCT DEEP
AddressGroton, CT 06340
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedThames River-Frontal New London Harbor (HUC 011000030203)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH1200
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit600
Copper, total [as Cu]600
Lead, total [as Pb]600
Zinc, total [as Zn]600
Chlorine, total residual600
Specific conductance400
Salinity400
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]400
Iron, total [as Fe]400
Noael Static 48Hr Acute Mysid. Bahia400
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Menidia sp.400
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]300
Aluminum, total [as Al]200
Flow200

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CTCSW0023.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CTCSW0023.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.