Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0020869
SPRAGUE OPERATING RESOURCES LLC - SPRAGUE QUINCY TERMINAL, Quincy, MA: NPDES MA0020869 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 18Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
SPRAGUE OPERATING RESOURCES LLC - SPRAGUE QUINCY TERMINAL, held by SPRAGUE, holds NPDES permit MA0020869, which discharges to Town River To Weymouth Fore River. EPA’s file records it issued May 9, 2013 and expiring April 30, 2018. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | SPRAGUE OPERATING RESOURCES LLC - SPRAGUE QUINCY TERMINAL |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | SPRAGUE |
| NPDES ID | MA0020869 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Industrial stormwater |
| Issued | May 9, 2013 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2018 |
| Address | Quincy, MA 02169 |
| Receiving water | TOWN RIVER TO WEYMOUTH FORE RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Monatiquot River-Frontal Quincy Bay (HUC 010900010901) |
| SIC | 5172 – Petroleum Products |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler MAD000846097; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002511901014 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 20Pollutants on file
- 18Under a numeric limit
- 20With a violation of any kind
- 5With 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 | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 2 | 74 | 28 | June 30, 2026 | 500% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 62 | 20 | November 30, 2024 | |
| Oil & Grease | 1 | 27 | 3 | May 31, 2012 | 47% over the limit |
| Benzo[a]pyrene | 1 | 4 | 3 | September 30, 2024 | 107,592% over the limit |
| Flow rate | 1 | 11 | 2 | December 31, 2011 | 1,000% over the limit |
| Polyram | 0 | 63 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 0 | 55 | 0 | ||
| Number of Events | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Flow, total | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Toluene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Benzene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[b]fluoranthene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[k]fluoranthene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Chrysene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Benzo[a]anthracene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Dibenz[a,h]anthracene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Ethylbenzene | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Xylene [mix of m+o+p] | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Naphthalene | 1 | 1 | 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 MA0020869.
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 October 14, 2026.