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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDL055174

LITTLE PATUXENT WWTP, Savage, MD: NPDES MDL055174 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

LITTLE PATUXENT WWTP, held by LITTLE PATUXENT WATER RECLAMAT, holds NPDES permit MDL055174. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 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 filedLITTLE PATUXENT WWTP
Permittee as filedLITTLE PATUXENT WATER RECLAMAT
NPDES IDMDL055174
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressSavage, MD 20763
SubwatershedDorsey Run-Little Patuxent River (HUC 020600060202)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MDD985390277; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002402700294

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]0600
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]0600
Cadmium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cd]0600
Selenium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Se]0480
Arsenic total, dry weight, sludge0480
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]0480
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]0480
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]0480
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]0480
Hydrocarbons, total gas chromatograph0130
Annual whole sludge application rate0130
Arsenic, sludge tot. dry wt [as As]0120
Chromium, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cr]0120
Pollutant table from 503.130120
Level of pathogen requirements achieved0120
Description of pathogen option used0120
Vector attraction reduction alternative used0120

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MDL055174.

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 MDL055174.

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

LITTLE PATUXENT WWTP is 1 biosolids permit on EPA's NPDES register in Howard County, including its own. The Dorsey Run-Little Patuxent River subwatershed lists 44 NPDES permits, including this permit. It has 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.