Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0000159

TWIN RIVERS PAPER COMPANY - MADAWASKA MILL, Madawaska, ME: NPDES ME0000159 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
12Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

TWIN RIVERS PAPER COMPANY - MADAWASKA MILL, held by TWIN RIVERS PAPER COMPANY LLC, holds NPDES permit ME0000159, which discharges to St John River. EPA’s file records it issued April 1, 2015 and expiring March 31, 2020. 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 filed	TWIN RIVERS PAPER COMPANY - MADAWASKA MILL
Permittee as filed	TWIN RIVERS PAPER COMPANY LLC
NPDES ID	ME0000159
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 1, 2015
Expiration date	March 31, 2020
Address	Madawaska, ME 04756
Receiving water	St John River
Subwatershed	Thibodeau Brook-St. John River (HUC 010100090601)
SIC	2611 – Pulp Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MED001111368; ICIS-AIR source ME0000002300311110

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

14Pollutants on file
12Under a numeric limit
11With a violation of any kind
3With 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	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Solids, total suspended	8	6	6	August 31, 2024	32% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	2	2	September 30, 2024	14% over the limit
pH	2	1	1	January 31, 2006
Priority Pollutants	1	15	0
NOEL Static Renewal 7Day Chronic Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	3	0
Noel Statre 10Day Chronic Salvel. Salmonid	2	3	0
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	3	0
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Salvel. Salmonid	2	3	0
Analytical Chemistry	2	1	0
Noel Statre 7Day Chronic Pimephales	0	1	0
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	0	1	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	0	0

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 ME0000159.

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.

This public-records page covers the Clean Water Act NPDES discharge permit ME0000159 held by Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC for the Twin Rivers Paper Company - Madawaska Mill in Madawaska, ME, which discharges to the St John River and is administratively continued past its expiration date. The page lists 3 pollutants under a numeric limit and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it reports the permit as a Major Discharger class permit.