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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDG499832

C.WM. HETZER,INC.-SHALE PIT, Clear Spring, MD: NPDES MDG499832 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

C.WM. HETZER,INC.-SHALE PIT, held by C. William Hetzer, Inc. - Shale Pit, holds NPDES permit MDG499832, which discharges to Unnamed Trib To Potomac River. EPA’s file records it issued December 3, 2010 and expiring April 30, 2015. 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 filedC.WM. HETZER,INC.-SHALE PIT
Permittee as filedC. William Hetzer, Inc. - Shale Pit
NPDES IDMDG499832
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
IssuedDecember 3, 2010
Expiration dateApril 30, 2015
Issuing agencyMaryland Department of The Environment
AddressClear Spring, MD 21795
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB TO POTOMAC RIVER
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCamp Spring Run-Potomac River (HUC 020700041103)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH0560
Solids, total suspended0560
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0560
Solids, settleable0280

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MDG499832.

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 MDG499832.

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.

What this page shows

The C.WM. HETZER,INC.-SHALE PIT permit (NPDES ID MDG499832) is one of 8 NPDES permits in the Camp Spring Run-Potomac River subwatershed, and it is one of 64 general permit coverages in Washington County, where 9.5% of the 63 coverages there carry an earlier issue date than this one. The permit records zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 23.4% of the 64 Washington County general permit coverages have a violation on file.