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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDR003910

COLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC., Ellicott, MD: NPDES MDR003910 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. holds NPDES permit MDR003910, which discharges to Patapsco River Lower North Branch. EPA’s file records it issued March 20, 2025 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.

What the register holds for COLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Ellicott, Maryland, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MDR003910.

Identity

Facility as filedCOLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC.
Permittee as filedCOLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC.
NPDES IDMDR003910
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 20, 2025
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2028
Issuing agencyMaryland Department of the Environment
AddressEllicott, MD 21043
Receiving waterPatapsco River Lower North Branch
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedBrice Run-Patapsco River (HUC 020600031101)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MDR003910.

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 MDR003910.

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.

What this page shows

Counting this permit, 88.1% of the 67 general permit coverages in Howard County were issued before the COLUMBIA GROUNDS MANAGEMENT, INC. permit. Of the 68 Howard County coverages, 41.2% have a violation on file. The Brice Run-Patapsco River subwatershed holds 10 NPDES permits, counting this permit.