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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDL021512

FREEDOM DISTRICT WWTP, Millersville, MD: NPDES MDL021512 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FREEDOM DISTRICT WWTP holds NPDES permit MDL021512. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 filedFREEDOM DISTRICT WWTP
Permittee as filedFREEDOM DISTRICT WWTP
NPDES IDMDL021512
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressMillersville, MD 21108
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedPiney Branch-South Branch Patapsco River (HUC 020600031004)

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
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]0280
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]0280
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]0280
Selenium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Se]0160
Arsenic total, dry weight, sludge0160
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]0160
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]0160
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]0160
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]0160
Hydrocarbons, total gas chromatograph0120
Arsenic, sludge tot. dry wt [as As]0120
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]0120
Annual whole sludge application rate040
Pollutant table from 503.13040
Level of pathogen requirements achieved040
Description of pathogen option used040
Vector attraction reduction alternative used040
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MDL021512.

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 MDL021512.

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.