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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDR003213

UPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION WWTP, Westernport, MD: NPDES MDR003213 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION WWTP, held by UPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION, holds NPDES permit MDR003213, which discharges to North Branch Potomac. EPA’s file records it issued January 23, 2024 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 UPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION WWTP: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Westernport, Maryland, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MDR003213.

Identity

Facility as filedUPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION WWTP
Permittee as filedUPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION
NPDES IDMDR003213
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJanuary 23, 2024
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2028
Issuing agencyMARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
AddressWesternport, MD 21562
Receiving waterNORTH BRANCH POTOMAC
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLimestone Run-North Branch Potomac River (HUC 020700020402)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MDD069393767; ICIS-AIR source MD0000002400100239

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 MDR003213.

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 MDR003213.

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 UPPER POTOMAC RIVER COMMISSION WWTP is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Limestone Run-North Branch Potomac River subwatershed, and it is one of 28 general permit coverages in Allegany County, where 75.0% of the coverages were issued earlier than this one. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, which sets it apart from the 60.7% of Allegany County coverages that carry a violation on file.