Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0067857

AQUACULTURE HOLDINGS LLC, Cordova, MD: NPDES MD0067857 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

AQUACULTURE HOLDINGS LLC, held by ALLEN FAMILY FOODS, INC, holds NPDES permit MD0067857, which discharges to Tuckahoe Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 1, 2005 and expiring April 30, 2010. 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 filed	AQUACULTURE HOLDINGS LLC
Permittee as filed	ALLEN FAMILY FOODS, INC
NPDES ID	MD0067857
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	May 1, 2005
Expiration date	April 30, 2010
Issuing agency	MDE
Address	Cordova, MD 21625
Receiving water	TUCKAHOE CREEK
Subwatershed	Jadwins Creek-Tuckahoe Creek (HUC 020600050105)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

18Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
18With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Nitrogen, total [as N]	6	426	22	March 31, 2019	562% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	12	189	9	April 30, 2015	42% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	7	318	6	August 31, 2008	470% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	20	219	4	August 31, 2008	88% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	12	214	4	March 31, 2010	39% over the limit
pH	4	83	1	November 30, 2011
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	40	1	November 30, 2011	100% over the limit
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	8	272	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	4	194	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	8	109	0
Oil & Grease	9	103	0
Chloride [as Cl]	0	92	0
Solids, total dissolved	0	92	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	4	76	0
Coliform, fecal general	4	50	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	41	0
Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate	4	40	0
E. coli	0	15	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 MD0067857.

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.