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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0101702

GARDINER WWTF, Gardiner, ME: NPDES ME0101702 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GARDINER WWTF, held by GARDINER CITY OF, holds NPDES permit ME0101702, which discharges to Kennebec River. EPA’s file records it issued November 1, 2011 and expiring October 31, 2016. 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 filedGARDINER WWTF
Permittee as filedGARDINER CITY OF
NPDES IDME0101702
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
IssuedNovember 1, 2011
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2016
AddressGardiner, ME 04345
Receiving waterKennebec River
SubwatershedSwan Island-Kennebec River (HUC 010300032409)

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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C211614February 28, 202278% over the limit
Solids, total suspended211564February 28, 202269% over the limit
pH7573June 30, 2024
BOD, 5-day, percent removal3393April 30, 202095% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal3383February 28, 202253% over the limit
E. coli, thermotol, MF, MTEC6302August 31, 200999,999% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual4361September 30, 2018110% over the limit
Solids, settleable2201May 31, 201217% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant8710
Phosphorus, total [as P]0360
Arsenic, total [as As]2340
Overflows2160
Surface loading rate1160
Aluminum, total [as Al]440
Mercury, total [as Hg]240
Analytical Chemistry120
Flow rate110
Priority Pollutants110
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia110
Noel Statre 10Day Chronic Salvel. Salmonid110
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia110
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Salvel. Salmonid110
Lead, total [as Pb]200

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 ME0101702.

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.