Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0020052
TOWN OF INDIAN HEAD WWTP, Indian Head, MD: NPDES MD0020052 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 16Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 10Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
TOWN OF INDIAN HEAD WWTP holds NPDES permit MD0020052, which discharges to Mattawoman Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 26, 2017 and expiring May 31, 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 | TOWN OF INDIAN HEAD WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | TOWN OF INDIAN HEAD WWTP |
| NPDES ID | MD0020052 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | April 26, 2017 |
| Expiration date | May 31, 2022 |
| Issuing agency | MDE |
| Address | Indian Head, MD 20640 |
| Receiving water | MATTAWOMAN CREEK |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Marbury Run-Mattawoman Creek (HUC 020700110102) |
| 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
- 20Pollutants on file
- 16Under a numeric limit
- 19With a violation of any kind
- 10With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 4 | 121 | 83 | April 30, 2022 | 2,100% over the limit |
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 8 | 49 | 19 | February 29, 2016 | 153% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 6 | 61 | 17 | February 29, 2020 | 272% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 23 | 9 | December 31, 2003 | 44% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 21 | 7 | November 30, 2006 | |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 8 | 56 | 5 | March 31, 2015 | 211% over the limit |
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 11 | 4 | September 30, 2006 | 32% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 0 | 4 | 4 | October 31, 2007 | 94% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 4 | 117 | 1 | May 31, 2008 | 2% over the limit |
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 14 | 1 | January 31, 2018 | 10,991% over the limit |
| E. coli | 1 | 19 | 0 | ||
| Aluminum, total recoverable | 1 | 11 | 0 | ||
| Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCB] pg/L | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, organic total [as N] | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Phosphate, ortho [as P] | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP] | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 1 | 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 MD0020052.
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.