Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDR003798

ASPEN NURSERY, Silver Spring, MD: NPDES MDR003798 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ASPEN NURSERY holds NPDES permit MDR003798, which discharges to Anacostia River. EPA’s file records it issued March 13, 2024 and expiring January 31, 2028. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	ASPEN NURSERY
Permittee as filed	ASPEN NURSERY
NPDES ID	MDR003798
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	March 13, 2024
Expiration date	January 31, 2028
Issuing agency	MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Address	Silver Spring, MD 20905
Receiving water	ANACOSTIA RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Northwest Branch Anacostia River (HUC 020700100201)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
5With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Arsenic, total recoverable	1	9
Zinc, total [as Zn]	1	9
Copper, total recoverable	1	9
Suspended Solids, Total	1	9
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	1	9

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MDR003798.

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 MDR003798.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit MDR003798, held by ASPEN NURSERY in Silver Spring, MD, which discharges to the ANACOSTIA RIVER within the Northwest Branch Anacostia River subwatershed (HUC 020700100201). The page lists the permit as Effective, with a Minor discharger class, an issue date of March 13, 2024, and an expiration date of January 31, 2028, and reports 5 pollutants on file, all under a numeric limit, with 0 showing an effluent exceedance.