Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0036838

SHY BEAVER TROUT HATCHERY, Hollis Center, ME: NPDES ME0036838 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
2Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

SHY BEAVER TROUT HATCHERY, held by PIERCE ASSOCIATES, INC., holds NPDES permit ME0036838, which discharges to Wales Pond. EPA’s file records it issued July 1, 2015 and expiring June 30, 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	SHY BEAVER TROUT HATCHERY
Permittee as filed	PIERCE ASSOCIATES, INC.
NPDES ID	ME0036838
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	July 1, 2015
Expiration date	June 30, 2020
Address	Hollis Center, ME 04042
Receiving water	Wales Pond
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Bonney Eagle Pond-Saco River (HUC 010600021102)
NAICS	112511 – Finfish Farming and Fish Hatcheries
SIC	0921 – Fish Hatcheries And Preserves

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

9Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
2With 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
Phosphorus, total [as P]	4	61	1	September 30, 2015	8% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	53	1	July 31, 2007	9% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	108	0
Solids, total suspended	4	108	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	0	96	0
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	0	96	0
pH	2	66	0
Time, starting [hhmmusing 24-hour clock]	0	32	0
Phosphate, ortho [as P]	0	12	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 ME0036838.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES ME0036838.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES ME0036838.

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 Clean Water Act NPDES permit ME0036838 for Shy Beaver Trout Hatchery in Hollis Center, ME, held by Pierce Associates, Inc., which discharges to Wales Pond within the Bonney Eagle Pond-Saco River subwatershed (HUC 010600021102). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class, 5 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 2 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.