Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0029297

P.J. KEATING COMPANY, Acushnet, MA: NPDES MA0029297 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
20Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

P.J. KEATING COMPANY holds NPDES permit MA0029297, which discharges to Ie. EPA’s file records it issued September 12, 2007 and expiring November 30, 2012. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	P.J. KEATING COMPANY
Permittee as filed	P.J. KEATING COMPANY
NPDES ID	MA0029297
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 12, 2007
Expiration date	November 30, 2012
Address	Acushnet, MA 01462
Receiving water	IE
Subwatershed	Acushnet River-Frontal Buzzards Bay (HUC 010900020401)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

22Pollutants on file
20Under a numeric limit
22With a violation of any kind
5With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	4	143	83	April 30, 2025	848% over the limit
pH	4	95	54	February 28, 2019
Turbidity	2	57	38	June 30, 2024
Oil & Grease	4	49	14	November 30, 2015	99,999% over the limit
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Arbacia	0	1	1	September 30, 2022	50% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	47	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	23	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	22	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	2	21	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	2	20	0
Naphthalene	4	15	0
BTEX	4	15	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	0	13	0
Toluene	2	8	0
Benzene	2	8	0
Ethylbenzene	2	8	0
Xylene [mix of m+o+p]	2	8	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	5	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	2	5	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	3	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	2	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	2	0

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MA0029297.

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 14, 2026.