Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0000272

ADVENT INDUSTRIES,LLC., Frostburg, MD: NPDES MD0000272 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ADVENT INDUSTRIES,LLC. holds NPDES permit MD0000272, which discharges to North Branch Potomac River. EPA’s file records it issued September 1, 2003 and expiring August 31, 2008. 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	ADVENT INDUSTRIES,LLC.
Permittee as filed	ADVENT INDUSTRIES,LLC.
NPDES ID	MD0000272
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	September 1, 2003
Expiration date	August 31, 2008
Address	Frostburg, MD 21532
Receiving water	NORTH BRANCH POTOMAC RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Upper Georges Creek (HUC 020700020301)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MDD003079910; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002400100015

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
2With 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
pH	6	77	5	December 31, 2011
Solids, total suspended	2	27	3	June 30, 2017	511% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	100	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	2	26	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	26	0
Temp. diff. between up/down stream deg. F	1	5	0
Oil & Grease	0	2	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 MD0000272.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MD0000272, held by ADVENT INDUSTRIES,LLC. in Frostburg, MD, which discharges to the NORTH BRANCH POTOMAC RIVER and is administratively continued as a minor discharger. The page lists 2 pollutants under a numeric limit and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.