Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0000540

PIONEER PLASTICS CORPORATION, Auburn, ME: NPDES ME0000540 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PIONEER PLASTICS CORPORATION holds NPDES permit ME0000540, which discharges to Little Androscoggin River. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2016 and expiring September 30, 2021. 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	PIONEER PLASTICS CORPORATION
Permittee as filed	PIONEER PLASTICS CORPORATION
NPDES ID	ME0000540
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 1, 2016
Expiration date	September 30, 2021
Address	Auburn, ME 04210
Receiving water	Little Androscoggin River
Subwatershed	Taylor Pond-Little Androscoggin River (HUC 010400020910)
SIC	2821 – Plastics Materials And Resins
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MED040228983; ICIS-AIR source ME0000002300100003

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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
1With a violation of any kind
1With 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
pH	2	2	2	June 30, 2025
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	0	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	0	0
Flow rate	1	0	0
Duration of discharge	1	0	0
NOAEL Static 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia	1	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 ME0000540.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ME0000540 held by PIONEER PLASTICS CORPORATION in Auburn, ME, which discharges to the Little Androscoggin River, with its status and dates as loaded on October 14, 2026. The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class 6 permit, with 1 pollutant under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, and it is tied to the Taylor Pond-Little Androscoggin River subwatershed (HUC 010400020910).