Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0284J06

BLACK GOLD FARMS INC., Rhodesdale, MD: NPDES MD0284J06 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
2Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BLACK GOLD FARMS INC., held by Black Gold Farms Inc., holds NPDES permit MD0284J06. EPA’s file records it issued August 29, 2022 and expiring August 31, 2027. 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	BLACK GOLD FARMS INC.
Permittee as filed	Black Gold Farms Inc.
NPDES ID	MD0284J06
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	State-issued individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 29, 2022
Expiration date	August 31, 2027
Issuing agency	Maryland Dept. of the Environment
Address	Rhodesdale, MD 21659
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Chicone Creek-Nanticoke River (HUC 020801090501)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

2Pollutants on file
2Under a numeric limit
2With 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	4	22	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	17	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MD0284J06.

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 MD0284J06.

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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This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MD0284J06, held by BLACK GOLD FARMS INC. in Rhodesdale, MD, with its permit status listed as Effective and its discharger class as Minor Discharger. The page lists 2 pollutants on file, both under a numeric limit, with 2 showing a violation of any kind and 0 showing an effluent exceedance, and it lists the permit's issue and expiration dates, August 29, 2022 and August 31, 2027.