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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PA0045187

RICHLAND MEADOWS MHP STP, Quakertown, PA: NPDES PA0045187 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RICHLAND MEADOWS MHP STP, held by WILLIAMS LEE, holds NPDES permit PA0045187, which discharges to Morgan Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 22, 2020 and expiring September 30, 2025. 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 filedRICHLAND MEADOWS MHP STP
Permittee as filedWILLIAMS LEE
NPDES IDPA0045187
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 22, 2020
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2025
Issuing agencyState Environmental Organization
AddressQuakertown, PA 18951
Receiving waterMorgan Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedUpper Tohickon Creek (HUC 020401050701)

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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]431February 28, 20223% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general431April 30, 201920% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]231January 31, 20265% over the limit
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]640
Solids, total suspended440
pH220
Nitrogen, total [as N]220
Chlorine, total residual220
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]110
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant110
Solids, total dissolved100

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
December 5, 2023Permit Violations - Failure to Pay FeesST6
January 3, 2023Permit Violations - Failure to Pay FeesST6
December 3, 2018Effluent Violations - Unapproved BypassST6

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.