Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MAR053978

SOUTH MOUND SWALE AT PEABODY LANDFILL, Peabody, MA: NPDES MAR053978 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
10Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SOUTH MOUND SWALE AT PEABODY LANDFILL, held by City of Peabody, holds NPDES permit MAR053978. EPA’s file records it issued March 19, 2017 and expiring June 3, 2020. 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	SOUTH MOUND SWALE AT PEABODY LANDFILL
Permittee as filed	City of Peabody
NPDES ID	MAR053978
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	March 19, 2017
Expiration date	June 3, 2020
Issuing agency	U.S. EPA
Address	Peabody, MA 01960
Subwatershed	North River-Frontal Massachusetts Bay (HUC 010900010302)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
10Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Solids, total suspended	5	25	13	February 28, 2026	2,700% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	4	10	6	June 30, 2025	151% over the limit
Benzoic acids, total	4	12	4	June 30, 2024	111% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	4	0
pH	4	4	0
Phenol	4	4	0
Nitrogen, ammonia, total [as NH3]	4	4	0
p-Cresol	4	4	0
.alpha.-Terpineol	4	4	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	1	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 MAR053978.

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 MAR053978 for South Mound Swale at Peabody Landfill in Peabody, MA, held by City of Peabody under an industrial stormwater program, with the permit administratively continued past its June 3, 2020 expiration. The page lists 10 pollutants on file, 3 of which show an effluent exceedance, and 9 of which carry a violation of any kind, with the watershed given as North River-Frontal Massachusetts Bay (HUC 010900010302).