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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDG679786

CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK CENTRALIZED TREATMRNT BLDG & WATER STORAGE TANK, Thurmont, MD: NPDES MDG679786 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK CENTRALIZED TREATMRNT BLDG & WATER STORAGE TANK, held by NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/SOUTHERN CONTRACTING, LLC, holds NPDES permit MDG679786, which discharges to Gw, Ut To Owens Creek. EPA’s file records it issued December 16, 2024 and expiring July 31, 2025. 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 filedCATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK CENTRALIZED TREATMRNT BLDG & WATER STORAGE TANK
Permittee as filedNATIONAL PARK SERVICE/SOUTHERN CONTRACTING, LLC
NPDES IDMDG679786
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 16, 2024
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2025
Issuing agencyMDE
AddressThurmont, MD 21788
Receiving waterGW, UT TO OWENS CREEK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHunting Creek (HUC 020700090505)

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
Flow, total2120
Temperature Increase Deg. F160

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MDG679786.

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 MDG679786.

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.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MDG679786 for the Catoctin Mountain Park Centralized Treatment Building & Water Storage Tank in Thurmont, MD, held by National Park Service/Southern Contracting, LLC, which discharges to GW, UT to Owens Creek. The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor discharger class 2 permit, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.