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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CTP002426

MYSTIC AQUARIUM, Mystic, CT: NPDES CTP002426 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MYSTIC AQUARIUM, held by SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., holds NPDES permit CTP002426. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2009 and expiring March 31, 2019. 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 filedMYSTIC AQUARIUM
Permittee as filedSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
NPDES IDCTP002426
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeIndividual industrial user permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 18, 2009
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2019
Issuing agencyCT DEP
AddressMystic, CT 06355
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed

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
pH260
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]130
Copper, total [as Cu]130
Chlorine, total residual130
Flow130

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES CTP002426.

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 CTP002426.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES CTP002426 for Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT, held by Sea Research Foundation, Inc., with the permit status listed as Effective and the discharger class as Minor. The page lists 5 pollutants on file, 5 under a numeric limit, 5 with a violation of any kind, and 0 with an effluent exceedance.