Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0020044
OCEAN CITY WWTP, Ocean City, MD: NPDES MD0020044 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 13Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
OCEAN CITY WWTP, held by The Town of Ocean City, holds NPDES permit MD0020044, which discharges to Coastal Area. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2022. 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 | OCEAN CITY WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | The Town of Ocean City |
| NPDES ID | MD0020044 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | October 1, 2020 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2022 |
| Issuing agency | Maryland Department of the Environment |
| Address | Ocean City, MD 21842 |
| Receiving water | COASTAL AREA |
| Subwatershed | Assawoman Bay (HUC 020403030303) |
| SIC | 4952 – Sewerage Systems |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 16Pollutants on file
- 13Under a numeric limit
- 10With a violation of any kind
- 6With 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 | 4 | 5 | 5 | April 30, 2024 | 54% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 4 | 4 | July 31, 2022 | 32% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 1 | 3 | 3 | July 31, 2008 | 64% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 2 | 2 | February 28, 2015 | |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 2 | 2 | August 31, 2008 | 600% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 4 | 1 | 1 | October 31, 2002 | 1% over the limit |
| Flow, total | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, organic total [as N] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 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 MD0020044.
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.