Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0100285

KITTERY WWTF, Kittery, ME: NPDES ME0100285 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

KITTERY WWTF, held by KITTERY TOWN OF, holds NPDES permit ME0100285, which discharges to Piscataqua River. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2006 and expiring March 31, 2011. 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	KITTERY WWTF
Permittee as filed	KITTERY TOWN OF
NPDES ID	ME0100285
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 1, 2006
Expiration date	March 31, 2011
Address	Kittery, ME 03904
Receiving water	Piscataqua River
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Portsmouth Harbor (HUC 010600031001)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
13With 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
Solids, total suspended	6	101	15	January 31, 2017	173% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	96	14	April 30, 2012	100% over the limit
Solids, settleable	1	21	9	October 31, 2018	33,233% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	23	7	September 30, 2022	856% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	32	2	May 31, 2012	208% over the limit
pH	2	31	1	September 30, 2010
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	15	1	January 31, 2008	7% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	31	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	15	0
Priority pollutants scan [yes/no]	2	3	0
NOEL Static 1Hr 20min Fert. Chronic Arbacia punctulata	2	3	0
NOAEL Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	2	3	0
Priority Pollutants	1	1	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 ME0100285.

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.