Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0022551
POCOMOKE CITY WWTP, Pocomoke City, MD: NPDES MD0022551 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 15Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 8Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
POCOMOKE CITY WWTP, held by Pocomoke City, holds NPDES permit MD0022551, which discharges to Pocomoke River. EPA’s file records it issued September 24, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2020. 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 | POCOMOKE CITY WWTP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Pocomoke City |
| NPDES ID | MD0022551 |
| 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 | September 24, 2015 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2020 |
| Issuing agency | MD DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Address | Pocomoke City, MD 21851 |
| Receiving water | POCOMOKE RIVER |
| Subwatershed | Cypress Swamp-Pocomoke River (HUC 020801110303) |
| 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
- 26Pollutants on file
- 15Under a numeric limit
- 26With a violation of any kind
- 8With 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C | 4 | 79 | 74 | January 31, 2018 | 282% over the limit |
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 8 | 33 | 23 | August 31, 2011 | 237% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 8 | 27 | 8 | September 30, 2015 | 76% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 5 | 10 | 4 | December 31, 2015 | 25% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 4 | 7 | 3 | September 30, 2007 | 120% over the limit |
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 2 | 6 | 2 | July 31, 1999 | 2% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 33 | 1 | August 31, 2002 | 27% over the limit |
| pH | 2 | 3 | 1 | October 31, 2004 | |
| Flow, total | 3 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Phosphate, ortho [as P] | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| E. coli | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, organic total [as N] | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| N-Nitrosodimethylamine [NDMA] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 4,4'-DDT | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlordane [tech mix. and metabolites] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Toxaphene | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Hexachlorobenzene | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Flow | 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 MD0022551.
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.