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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0000230

CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. - CUR, Baltimore, MD: NPDES MD0000230 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. - CUR, held by CSX TRANS CHESAPEAKE AVE., holds NPDES permit MD0000230, which discharges to Patapsco River. EPA’s file records it issued February 1, 1998 and expiring January 31, 2003. 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 filedCSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. - CUR
Permittee as filedCSX TRANS CHESAPEAKE AVE.
NPDES IDMD0000230
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 1, 1998
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2003
AddressBaltimore, MD 21225
Receiving waterPATAPSCO RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHerbert Run-Patapsco River (HUC 020600031103)

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
Oil & Grease141September 30, 201333% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant260
Nitrogen, total [as N]040
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]040
Phosphorus, total [as P]040
Nitrogen, nitrite total [as N]020
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]020

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 MD0000230.

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.

What this page shows

This EPA public-records page covers NPDES permit MD0000230, held by CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. - CUR in Baltimore, MD, which discharges to the Patapsco River and is administratively continued past its January 31, 2003 expiration. The listed figures are 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, out of 7 pollutants on file.