Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MA0100625

GLOUCESTER W P C F, Gloucester, MA: NPDES MA0100625 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
12Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

GLOUCESTER W P C F, held by CITY OF GLOUCESTER, holds NPDES permit MA0100625, which discharges to Gloucester Harbor (Atlantic Ocean). EPA’s file records it issued August 28, 2001 and expiring October 31, 2006. 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	GLOUCESTER W P C F
Permittee as filed	CITY OF GLOUCESTER
NPDES ID	MA0100625
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 28, 2001
Expiration date	October 31, 2006
Address	Gloucester, MA 01930
Receiving water	GLOUCESTER HARBOR (ATLANTIC OCEAN)
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Essex Bay-Frontal Atlantic Ocean (HUC 010900010301)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD982197584

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
12With 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
Chlorine, total residual	2	241	239	August 31, 2025	373% over the limit
pH	2	148	146	March 31, 2026
Coliform, fecal general	2	123	121	July 31, 2026	399,900% over the limit
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Menidia	1	92	86	June 30, 2026	91% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	90	84	September 30, 2025	309% over the limit
Oil & Grease	1	81	80	July 31, 2026	200% over the limit
Hydrocarbons, petroleum	1	76	75	July 31, 2026	1,560% over the limit
LC50 Static 48Hr Acute Americamysis bahia (formerly Mysidopsis bahia)	1	60	54	June 30, 2026	84% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	37	31	October 31, 2024	3,297% over the limit
Solids, settleable	1	27	26	November 30, 2009	400% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	20	19	April 30, 2007	41% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	4	1	July 31, 2009	3% over the limit
Priority Pollutants	1	6	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	3	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 MA0100625.

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 public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MA0100625 for GLOUCESTER W P C F in Gloucester, MA, held by CITY OF GLOUCESTER, with the permit status listed as administratively continued and the discharger class as Major Discharger. The facts list 14 for the discharger class count, 12 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 12 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and identify the receiving water as GLOUCESTER HARBOR (ATLANTIC OCEAN) within the Essex Bay-Frontal Atlantic Ocean subwatershed (HUC 010900010301).