Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0060437

CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION, White Marsh, MD: NPDES MD0060437 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
3Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION, held by CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION, holds NPDES permit MD0060437, which discharges to Patapsco River. EPA’s file records it issued October 9, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2025. 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	CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION
Permittee as filed	CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION
NPDES ID	MD0060437
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	October 9, 2020
Expiration date	October 31, 2025
Issuing agency	MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Address	White Marsh, MD 21162
Receiving water	PATAPSCO RIVER
Subwatershed	Whitemarsh Run-Bird River (HUC 020600030601)
SIC	5169 – Chemicals & Allied Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MDR000523212; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002400500866

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

7Pollutants on file
3Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
5With 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
Chloride [as Cl]	4	21	7	December 31, 2025	228% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	0	3	3	June 30, 2006	20% over the limit
pH	0	3	3	March 31, 2004
Coliform, fecal general	0	2	2	March 31, 2006	99,999% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	0	1	1	September 30, 2005	28% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	14	0
Cyanide [A]	4	12	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 MD0060437.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES permit MD0060437, held by CARGILL, INC. - SALT DIVISION in White Marsh, MD, which discharges to the Patapsco River within the Whitemarsh Run-Bird River subwatershed (HUC 020600030601). The permit is listed as a Minor Discharger, administratively continued, with 5 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.