Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MAR05J02L

BI-QEM INC., Florence, MA: NPDES MAR05J02L discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
2Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BI-QEM INC., held by Bi-Qem Inc., holds NPDES permit MAR05J02L. EPA’s file records it issued June 3, 2020 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	BI-QEM INC.
Permittee as filed	Bi-Qem Inc.
NPDES ID	MAR05J02L
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	June 3, 2020
Expiration date	June 3, 2020
Issuing agency	U.S. EPA
Address	Florence, MA 01062
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Mill River (HUC 010802010606)
SIC	2821 – Plastics Materials And Resins
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MAD000221028; ICIS-AIR source MA0000002504200151

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

3Pollutants on file
2Under a numeric limit
3With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Zinc, total recoverable	0	10
E. coli	2	4
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	2

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MAR05J02L.

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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
November 1, 2022	Failure to properly install, initiate, or fully implement industrial stormwater controls	EP6
November 1, 2022	Failure to properly conduct industrial stormwater inspections	EP6
November 1, 2022	Failure to comply with monitoring requirements related to industrial stormwater [40 CFR 122.41(j)]	EP6
November 1, 2022	Failure to develop, maintain, or get approval of an adequate SWPPP (industrial stormwater)	EP6

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit MAR05J02L, held by BI-QEM INC. in Florence, MA, which is listed as administratively continued with a minor discharger class of 2. The page reports 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.