Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0029092

THE LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY, Bourne, MA: NPDES MA0029092 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

THE LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY, held by LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY, holds NPDES permit MA0029092, which discharges to Back River. EPA’s file records it issued April 11, 2005 and expiring June 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	THE LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY
Permittee as filed	LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY
NPDES ID	MA0029092
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	April 11, 2005
Expiration date	June 30, 2010
Address	Bourne, MA 02532
Receiving water	BACK RIVER
Subwatershed	Wequaquet Lake (HUC 010900020206)
SIC	2092 – Fresh Or Frozen Prepared Fish

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

11Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
11With 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	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	2	40	32	August 31, 2018
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	3	21	8	July 31, 2016	67,599,904% over the limit
Coliform, total general	2	11	4	November 30, 2009	99,999% over the limit
Oil & Grease	2	7	1	May 31, 2000	7% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	12	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	8	0
Solids, total suspended	2	8	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	0	8	0
Production, seafood effluent	0	4	0
Coliform, fecal - % samples exceeding limit	0	2	0
Enterococci	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 MA0029092.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MA0029092 held by THE LOBSTER TRAP COMPANY in Bourne, MA, which discharges to Back River within the Wequaquet Lake subwatershed (HUC 010900020206). The page lists 11 pollutants on file, 6 of which are under a numeric limit, and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.