Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0003956

ROUSSELOT PEABODY INC, Peabody, MA: NPDES MA0003956 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ROUSSELOT PEABODY INC, held by EASTMAN GELATINE CORP, holds NPDES permit MA0003956, which discharges to Goldthwait Brook. EPA’s file records it issued September 27, 2006 and expiring November 20, 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	ROUSSELOT PEABODY INC
Permittee as filed	EASTMAN GELATINE CORP
NPDES ID	MA0003956
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 27, 2006
Expiration date	November 20, 2011
Address	Peabody, MA 01960
Receiving water	GOLDTHWAIT BROOK
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	North River-Frontal Massachusetts Bay (HUC 010900010302)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD002207546; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002511900175

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
3With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	298	160	March 31, 2020
Oil & Grease	140	72	March 31, 2020	820% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	39	32	March 31, 2020	1,380% over the limit
Lead, total [as Pb]	80	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	79	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	79	0
Solids, total suspended	68	0
Flow, total	67	0
Flow [dry weather]	12	0
Noel Static 7Day Chronic Pimephales	9	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	8	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	8	0
NOEL Static 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	6	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	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 MA0003956.

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 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MA0003956, held by Eastman Gelatine Corp for Rousselot Peabody Inc in Peabody, MA, which discharges to Goldthwait Brook, a receiving water listed as impaired under 303(D). The permit is recorded as Effective, a Minor discharger class 0 with 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it was issued September 27, 2006 with an expiration date of November 20, 2011.