Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0067938

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Columbia, MD: NPDES MD0067938 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY holds NPDES permit MD0067938, which discharges to Little Patuxent River- Dorsey Run. EPA’s file records it issued July 12, 2013 and expiring July 31, 2018. 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	GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Permittee as filed	GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
NPDES ID	MD0067938
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 12, 2013
Expiration date	July 31, 2018
Issuing agency	MD DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Address	Columbia, MD 21046
Receiving water	LITTLE PATUXENT RIVER- DORSEY RUN
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Dorsey Run-Little Patuxent River (HUC 020600060202)
SIC	3631 – Household Cooking Equipment
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source MD0000002402700020

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
5Under a numeric limit
7With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Trichloroethylene	0	11	3	December 31, 1999	7,100% over the limit
Organics-tot voltile [NJAC reg.7:23-17e]	2	13	2	September 30, 1999	260% over the limit
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene	0	9	1	December 31, 1998	43% over the limit
pH	4	22	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	22	0
1,2-cis-Dichloroethene	2	3	0
Trichloroethene	2	3	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 MD0067938.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit MD0067938, held by GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY in Columbia, MD, which discharges to LITTLE PATUXENT RIVER- DORSEY RUN within the Dorsey Run-Little Patuxent River subwatershed (HUC 020600060202). The page lists the permit as administratively continued and a minor discharger, with 5 as the discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.