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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAL026123

COLUMBIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT, Columbia, PA: NPDES PAL026123 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLUMBIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT holds NPDES permit PAL026123. 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 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedCOLUMBIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Permittee as filedCOLUMBIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT
NPDES IDPAL026123
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
AddressColumbia, PA 17512
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCabin Creek-Susquehanna River (HUC 020503061704)

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
Selenium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Se]060
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]060
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]060
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]060
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]060
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]060
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]060
Arsenic total, dry weight, sludge030
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]020
Annual whole sludge application rate010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PAL026123.

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 PAL026123.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 14, 2026.