Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0000060

PERDUE FARMS, INC., Salisbury, MD: NPDES MD0000060 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
21Pollutants under a numeric limit
12Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PERDUE FARMS, INC., held by Perdue Farms, Inc., holds NPDES permit MD0000060, which discharges to Peggy Branch. EPA’s file records it issued August 12, 2010 and expiring August 31, 2015. 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	PERDUE FARMS, INC.
Permittee as filed	Perdue Farms, Inc.
NPDES ID	MD0000060
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 12, 2010
Expiration date	August 31, 2015
Issuing agency	MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Address	Salisbury, MD 21804
Receiving water	PEGGY BRANCH
Subwatershed	North Prong Wicomico River (HUC 020801100301)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MDD000820605; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002404500042

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

21Pollutants on file
21Under 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
Coliform, fecal general	9	66	56	September 30, 2024	120,880% over the limit
Solids, total dissolved	6	31	31	March 31, 2022	180% over the limit
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	13	16	16	March 31, 2025	55% over the limit
pH	20	22	12	November 30, 2021
Phosphorus, total [as P]	7	19	12	September 30, 2000	95,300% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	15	11	5	April 30, 2007	188% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	15	9	3	April 30, 2001	94% over the limit
Oil & Grease	9	8	2	February 28, 2010	71% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]	14	22	1	June 30, 2000	330% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	16	5	1	May 31, 2025	4% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	3	1	June 30, 1994	16% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	1	1	March 31, 2003	130% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	56	28	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	11	0
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]	7	0	0
Phosphate, total [as PO4]	6	0	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	3	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	3	0	0
E. coli	3	0	0
Temp. diff. between up/down stream deg. F	1	0	0
Flow, total	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 MD0000060.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MD0000060, held by PERDUE FARMS, INC. in Salisbury, MD, which discharges to PEGGY BRANCH in the North Prong Wicomico River watershed (HUC 020801100301). The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Major Discharger class, with 21 pollutants under a numeric limit and 12 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued August 12, 2010 and expired August 31, 2015.