Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0026182

WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA: NPDES MA0026182 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
17Pollutants under a numeric limit
10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

WHEATON COLLEGE holds NPDES permit MA0026182, which discharges to Rumford River. EPA’s file records it issued August 18, 2004 and expiring August 30, 2008. 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	WHEATON COLLEGE
Permittee as filed	WHEATON COLLEGE
NPDES ID	MA0026182
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
Issued	August 18, 2004
Expiration date	August 30, 2008
Address	Norton, MA 02766
Receiving water	RUMFORD RIVER
Subwatershed	Threemile River (HUC 010900040302)
SIC	8221 – Colleges And Universities
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD075723007; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002512000045

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

21Pollutants on file
17Under a numeric limit
17With a violation of any kind
10With 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
Coliform, fecal general	5	72	67	May 31, 2004	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	7	98	65	January 31, 2011	742% over the limit
Solids, settleable	0	60	56	June 30, 2004	66,567% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	7	85	54	July 31, 2015	689% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	46	38	April 30, 2010	194% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	22	16	October 31, 2004	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	22	14	August 31, 2014
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	17	9	November 30, 2006	350% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	10	7	January 31, 2011	47% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	6	3	February 28, 2015	73% over the limit
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	1	3	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	2	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	1	2	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	1	2	0
Aluminum, total recoverable	0	2	0
Lead, total recoverable	0	2	0
Copper, total recoverable	0	2	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	0	0
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	0	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	0	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	2	0	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 MA0026182.

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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This page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MA0026182 held by WHEATON COLLEGE in Norton, MA, which discharges to the RUMFORD RIVER within the Threemile River subwatershed (HUC 010900040302). The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class, with 17 pollutants under a numeric limit and 10 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it was issued August 18, 2004 with an expiration date of August 30, 2008.