Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0005371

SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT INT'L INC, Lee, MA: NPDES MA0005371 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT INT'L INC, held by SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT, INT'L INC., holds NPDES permit MA0005371, which discharges to Housatonic River. EPA’s file records it issued May 31, 2000 and expiring July 31, 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	SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT INT'L INC
Permittee as filed	SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT, INT'L INC.
NPDES ID	MA0005371
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	May 31, 2000
Expiration date	July 31, 2005
Address	Lee, MA 01238
Receiving water	HOUSATONIC RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Goose Pond Brook-Housatonic River (HUC 011000050105)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

8Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
4With 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	8	6	September 30, 2008
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	5	4	September 30, 2007	75% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	2	January 31, 2006	50% over the limit
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	3	2	June 30, 2009	99,999% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	8	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	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 MA0005371.

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 EPA public-records page covers NPDES permit MA0005371, held by SCHWEITZER-MAUDUIT INT'L INC in Lee, MA, which discharges to the Housatonic River and is classed as a Major Discharger. The page lists 4 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit shown as administratively continued.