Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0005011

SOUTHWORTH CO. TURNERS FALL, Turners Falls, MA: NPDES MA0005011 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SOUTHWORTH CO. TURNERS FALL, held by SOUTHWORTH CO TURNERS FALLS MI, holds NPDES permit MA0005011, which discharges to Connecticut & N.E.U.Canal. EPA’s file records it issued December 8, 2000 and expiring December 8, 2005. 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	SOUTHWORTH CO. TURNERS FALL
Permittee as filed	SOUTHWORTH CO TURNERS FALLS MI
NPDES ID	MA0005011
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 8, 2000
Expiration date	December 8, 2005
Address	Turners Falls, MA 01376
Receiving water	CONNECTICUT & N.E.U.CANAL
Subwatershed	Dry Brook-Connecticut River (HUC 010802010503)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD001116532; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002504200100

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
7With 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
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	10	10	June 30, 2015	72% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	8	April 30, 2017	121% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	2	June 30, 2011	74% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	34	0
pH change [range]	14	0
pH	4	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	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 MA0005011.

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 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MA0005011 for SOUTHWORTH CO. TURNERS FALL in Turners Falls, MA, which discharges to Connecticut & N.E.U.Canal and is listed as administratively continued with a Major Discharger class. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit recorded as issued December 8, 2000 and expiring December 8, 2005.