Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0053325

CLEAR SPRING WWTP, Clear Spring, MD: NPDES MD0053325 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CLEAR SPRING WWTP, held by The Town of Clear Spring, holds NPDES permit MD0053325, which discharges to Toms Run Trib Little Conococheague. EPA’s file records it issued March 12, 2012 and expiring March 31, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	CLEAR SPRING WWTP
Permittee as filed	The Town of Clear Spring
NPDES ID	MD0053325
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	March 12, 2012
Expiration date	March 31, 2017
Issuing agency	Maryland Department of The Environment
Address	Clear Spring, MD 21722
Receiving water	TOMS RUN TRIB LITTLE CONOCOCHEAGUE
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Little Conococheague Creek (HUC 020700041102)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

16Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
15With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	54	33	April 30, 2022	978% over the limit
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	0	19	11	June 30, 2010	70% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	8	12	8	March 31, 2014	249% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	9	5	March 31, 2014	156% over the limit
E. coli	1	5	3	March 31, 2019	1,612% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	2	1	December 31, 2002	3% over the limit
Coliform, fecal general	0	1	1	April 30, 2004	356% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	3	120	0
Nitrogen, organic total [as N]	2	118	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	118	0
Phosphorous, in total orthophosphate	2	118	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	3	94	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	49	0
pH	2	2	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	2	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 MD0053325.

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 September 15, 2026.