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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MAG640012

BABSON FILTRATION PLANT, Gloucester, MA: NPDES MAG640012 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BABSON FILTRATION PLANT holds NPDES permit MAG640012, which discharges to Alwife Brook. EPA’s file records it issued December 2, 2002 and expiring November 30, 2005. 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 filedBABSON FILTRATION PLANT
Permittee as filedBABSON FILTRATION PLANT
NPDES IDMAG640012
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 2, 2002
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2005
AddressGloucester, MA 01930
Receiving waterALWIFE BROOK
SubwatershedEssex Bay-Frontal Atlantic Ocean (HUC 010900010301)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH211496February 28, 2019
Solids, total suspended2180
Chlorine, total residual2180
Aluminum, total recoverable190
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant190

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MAG640012.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MAG640012 for BABSON FILTRATION PLANT in Gloucester, MA, which discharges to ALWIFE BROOK in the Essex Bay-Frontal Atlantic Ocean subwatershed (HUC 010900010301). The permit is listed as administratively continued and as a minor discharger, with 5 pollutants on file, 5 under a numeric limit, 5 with a violation of any kind, and 1 with an effluent exceedance.