Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0028649

DRAKA CABLETEQ USA, Taunton, MA: NPDES MA0028649 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

DRAKA CABLETEQ USA holds NPDES permit MA0028649, which discharges to Three Mile River,. EPA’s file records it issued September 9, 2005 and expiring September 30, 2010. 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	DRAKA CABLETEQ USA
Permittee as filed	DRAKA CABLETEQ USA
NPDES ID	MA0028649
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	September 9, 2005
Expiration date	September 30, 2010
Address	Taunton, MA 02780
Receiving water	THREE MILE RIVER,
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Threemile River (HUC 010900040302)
SIC	3643 – Current-Carrying Wiring Devices
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD982191983; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002512000396

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

7Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
6With 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
pH	4	245	41	July 31, 2013
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	459	13	July 31, 2013	2,977% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	256	9	July 31, 2011	900% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	2	145	4	August 31, 2002	6% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	8	454	2	July 31, 2013	141% over the limit
Oil & Grease	4	292	2	March 31, 2006	53% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	0	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 MA0028649.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MA0028649 held by DRAKA CABLETEQ USA in Taunton, MA, which discharges to THREE MILE RIVER, a receiving water listed as impaired under 303(D), within the Threemile River subwatershed (HUC 010900040302). The permit is listed as administratively continued, a minor discharger permit issued September 9, 2005 with an expiration date of September 30, 2010, and the page records 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.