Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0065170

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - WYE R, Queenstown, MD: NPDES MD0065170 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
1Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - WYE R, held by U. OF MD. WYE RESEARCH CENTER, holds NPDES permit MD0065170, which discharges to Chester River-Decoursey Cove To Wye Narrows. EPA’s file records it issued March 28, 2011 and expiring April 30, 2016. 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	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - WYE R
Permittee as filed	U. OF MD. WYE RESEARCH CENTER
NPDES ID	MD0065170
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	March 28, 2011
Expiration date	April 30, 2016
Issuing agency	Maryland Department of The Environment
Address	Queenstown, MD 21658
Receiving water	CHESTER RIVER-DeCoursey Cove to Wye Narrows
Subwatershed	Lower Wye East River (HUC 020600020603)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

1Pollutants on file
1Under a numeric limit
1With a violation of any kind
0With 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	17	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MD0065170.

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 MD0065170.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MD0065170, held by UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - WYE R and discharging to CHESTER RIVER-DeCoursey Cove to Wye Narrows in the Lower Wye East River watershed (HUC 020600020603). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger classification, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. Its file dates are an issue date of March 28, 2011 and an expiration date of April 30, 2016.