Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0022454
UNION BRIDGE WWTP, Union Bridge, MD: NPDES MD0022454 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 14Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
UNION BRIDGE WWTP holds NPDES permit MD0022454, which discharges to Little Pipe Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 21, 2017 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 | UNION BRIDGE WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | UNION BRIDGE WWTP |
| NPDES ID | MD0022454 |
| 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 | June 21, 2017 |
| Expiration date | June 30, 2022 |
| Address | Union Bridge, MD 21791 |
| Receiving water | LITTLE PIPE CREEK |
| Subwatershed | Middle Little Pipe Creek (HUC 020700090402) |
| 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
- 18Pollutants on file
- 14Under a numeric limit
- 18With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 23 | 7 | November 30, 2009 | 40% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 4 | 36 | 4 | February 28, 1998 | 187% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 2 | 42 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 2 | 40 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 4 | 32 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, organic total [as N] | 1 | 20 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 4 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||
| pH | 2 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||
| E. coli | 1 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Phosphate, ortho [as P] | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Flow, total | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| BOD, 5-day, percent removal | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 0 | 1 | 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 MD0022454.
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.