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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDR000327

WMATA - SHADY GROVE RAIL YARD, Rockville, MD: NPDES MDR000327 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WMATA - SHADY GROVE RAIL YARD, held by WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, holds NPDES permit MDR000327, which discharges to Rock Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 12, 2023 and expiring January 31, 2028. 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.

What the register holds for WMATA - SHADY GROVE RAIL YARD: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Rockville, Maryland, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MDR000327.

Identity

Facility as filedWMATA - SHADY GROVE RAIL YARD
Permittee as filedWASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY
NPDES IDMDR000327
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 12, 2023
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2028
Issuing agencyMARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
AddressRockville, MD 20855
Receiving waterROCK CREEK
SubwatershedUpper Rock Creek (HUC 020700100101)
SIC4111 – Local And Suburban Transit
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MDD985369982; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002403101949

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MDR000327.

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 MDR000327.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The WMATA - Shady Grove Rail Yard holds an Effective general permit coverage in Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, one of 120 general permit coverages on EPA's NPDES register in that county, where 30.8% of them carry a violation on file. Among the 17 NPDES permits in the Upper Rock Creek subwatershed, this permit is one of those listed, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.