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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES FL1011766

CMA FRED HOWARD PARK STRANDING STATION, Tarpon Springs, FL: NPDES FL1011766 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CMA FRED HOWARD PARK STRANDING STATION, held by Clearwater Marine Aquarium, holds NPDES permit FL1011766, which discharges to St Joseph Sound North Class Iii Marine Wbid 8045g. EPA’s file records it issued June 26, 2018 and expiring June 25, 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.

Identity

Facility as filedCMA FRED HOWARD PARK STRANDING STATION
Permittee as filedClearwater Marine Aquarium
NPDES IDFL1011766
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJune 26, 2018
Expiration dateJune 25, 2023
Issuing agencyFlorida Department of Environmental Protection
AddressTarpon Springs, FL 34689
Receiving waterSt Joseph Sound North Class III Marine WBID 8045G

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
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Menidia311December 31, 20199% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant300
LC50 Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)300
Temperature, water deg. centigrade200
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]200
pH200
Chlorine, total residual200
Flow, total200
Turbidity100
Nitrogen, total [as N]100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
Phosphorus, total [as P]100
Enterococci: group D, MF trans, M-E, EIA100
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]100

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 FL1011766.

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