Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0050245

SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET, Thurmont, MD: NPDES MD0050245 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET, held by SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET, INC., holds NPDES permit MD0050245, which discharges to Trib.To Little Hunting Creek. EPA’s file records it issued July 8, 2010 and expiring July 31, 2015. 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	SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET
Permittee as filed	SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET, INC.
NPDES ID	MD0050245
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	July 8, 2010
Expiration date	July 31, 2015
Issuing agency	Maryland Department of the Environment
Address	Thurmont, MD 21788
Receiving water	TRIB.TO LITTLE HUNTING CREEK
Subwatershed	Hunting Creek (HUC 020700090505)
SIC	2011 – Meat Packing Plants

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

13Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Coliform, fecal general	1	11	9	March 31, 2002	99,999% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	66	7	December 31, 2001	131% over the limit
Oil & Grease	1	16	4	September 30, 1999	2,823% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	5	92	3	September 30, 2011	513% over the limit
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	50	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	50	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	40	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	3	31	0
pH	2	26	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	26	0
Alkalinity, total [as CaCO3]	0	17	0
E. coli	1	10	0
Nitrogen, Ammonia Total	0	4	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 MD0050245.

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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This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MD0050245, held by SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET, INC. for SHUFF'S MEAT MARKET in Thurmont, MD, which discharges to TRIB.TO LITTLE HUNTING CREEK in the Hunting Creek subwatershed (HUC 020700090505). The permit is listed as administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger, with 11 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants showing an effluent exceedance.