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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDG010319

CHARLES BALL/BALL FARM, Preston, MD: NPDES MDG010319 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHARLES BALL/BALL FARM, held by Charles Ball/Ball Farm, holds NPDES permit MDG010319. EPA’s file records it issued March 21, 2011 and expiring January 18, 2017. 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.

What the register holds for CHARLES BALL/BALL FARM: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Preston, Maryland. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MDG010319.

Identity

Facility as filedCHARLES BALL/BALL FARM
Permittee as filedCharles Ball/Ball Farm
NPDES IDMDG010319
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramConcentrated animal feeding operations
IssuedMarch 21, 2011
Expiration dateJanuary 18, 2017
Issuing agencyMaryland Department of the Environment - CAFO Permit
AddressPreston, MD 21655
SubwatershedMarsh Creek-Choptank River (HUC 020600050304)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MDG010319.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MDG010319.

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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What this page shows

The CHARLES BALL/BALL FARM permit (NPDES ID MDG010319), a CAFO general permit coverage in Preston, Caroline County, Maryland, is one of 19 CAFO permits on EPA's NPDES register in that county, and 0.0% of those 19 permits have a violation on file. Only 5.3% of the 19 Caroline County CAFO permits, this one included, carry an earlier issue date than this permit's March 21, 2011 issue date. The permit sits within the Marsh Creek-Choptank River subwatershed, where 8 NPDES permits are recorded, this one included, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit or with an effluent exceedance.