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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0054101

LINDE INCORPORATED, Baltimore, MD: NPDES MD0054101 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LINDE INCORPORATED, held by PRAXAIR INC., holds NPDES permit MD0054101, which discharges to Patapsco River. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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 filedLINDE INCORPORATED
Permittee as filedPRAXAIR INC.
NPDES IDMD0054101
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
IssuedJanuary 1, 2017
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2021
Issuing agencyMARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
AddressBaltimore, MD 21226
Receiving waterPATAPSCO RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCurtis Creek-Curtis Bay (HUC 020600031202)

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
Copper, dissolved [as Cu]010
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]200
pH200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Chlorine, total residual200
Copper, total [as Cu]100
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MD0054101.

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 MD0054101.

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.