Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDG521200
WRF GROUP, Fishing Creek, MD: NPDES MDG521200 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 5Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
WRF GROUP, held by RUSSELL HALL SEAFOOD, INC, holds NPDES permit MDG521200, which discharges to Honga River Via Back Creek. EPA’s file records it issued August 27, 2012 and expiring April 30, 2017. 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 | WRF GROUP |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | RUSSELL HALL SEAFOOD, INC |
| NPDES ID | MDG521200 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Coverage under a general permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | August 27, 2012 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2017 |
| Issuing agency | Maryland Department of The Environment |
| Address | Fishing Creek, MD 21634 |
| Receiving water | Honga River via Back Creek |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Fox Creek-Honga River (HUC 020600050603) |
| SIC | 5146 – Fish And Seafoods |
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
- 8Pollutants on file
- 5Under a numeric limit
- 8With 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 | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform, fecal general | 2 | 52 | 5 | April 30, 2017 | 11,329% over the limit |
| pH | 4 | 94 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 4 | 94 | 0 | ||
| Seafood Processing Waste | 4 | 60 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total suspended | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 43 | 0 | ||
| Production, seafood effluent | 0 | 24 | 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 MDG521200.
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.