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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0100013

GREATER AUGUSTA UTILITY DISTRICT, Augusta, ME: NPDES ME0100013 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GREATER AUGUSTA UTILITY DISTRICT holds NPDES permit ME0100013, which discharges to Kennebec River. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2008 and expiring September 30, 2013. 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 filedGREATER AUGUSTA UTILITY DISTRICT
Permittee as filedGREATER AUGUSTA UTILITY DISTRICT
NPDES IDME0100013
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typePublicly owned treatment works
ProgramPublicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 1, 2008
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2013
AddressAugusta, ME 04330
Receiving waterKennebec River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedRiggs Branch-Kennebec River (HUC 010300032404)

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
E. coli, thermotol, MF, MTEC64324September 30, 2020582% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]820113May 31, 202684% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant49010April 30, 202428% over the limit
Solids, total suspended81856December 31, 202140% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual4204June 30, 2008130% over the limit
Solids, settleable1243April 30, 2026733% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal2232April 30, 201113% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal2231April 30, 201113% over the limit
pH2420
Phosphorus, total [as P]4320
Surface loading rate1190
Overflows1190
Priority Pollutants170
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia170
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia170
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales070
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas070
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Salvel. Salmonid150
Noel Statre 10Day Chronic Salvel. Salmonid140
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C110
Arsenic, total [as As]200
Mercury, total [as Hg]200
Analytical Chemistry100
Carbonaceous oxygen demand, % removal100

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 30, 2026PR: Failure to inspect at least 80% of SIU/CIUs within the past 12 month reporting period (Level II)ST6

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.