Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0068195

MONTGOMERY COUNTY DPW PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS, Gaithersburg, MD: NPDES MD0068195 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
4Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MONTGOMERY COUNTY DPW PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS, held by Montgomery County Government, Department of General Services, holds NPDES permit MD0068195, which discharges to An Unnamed Trib.To Muddy Branch. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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	MONTGOMERY COUNTY DPW PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS
Permittee as filed	Montgomery County Government, Department of General Services
NPDES ID	MD0068195
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	January 1, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2021
Issuing agency	MD DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Address	Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Receiving water	AN UNNAMED TRIB.TO MUDDY BRANCH
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Muddy Branch (HUC 020700081001)
SIC	6512 – Nonresidential Building Operators

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

5Pollutants on file
4Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
1With 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
pH	2	11	1	June 30, 2014
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	0	80	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	30	0
Temp. diff. between up/down stream deg. F	2	10	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	10	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 MD0068195.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MD0068195 for MONTGOMERY COUNTY DPW PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS in Gaithersburg, MD, held by Montgomery County Government, Department of General Services, with a status of administratively continued and a discharger class of 4. The listed figures are 4 for the discharger class, 1 pollutant under a numeric limit, and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.