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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0037478

WHOLE OCEANS, LLC, Bucksport, ME: NPDES ME0037478 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

WHOLE OCEANS, LLC holds NPDES permit ME0037478, which discharges to Penobscot River. EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2018 and expiring November 30, 2023. 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 WHOLE OCEANS, LLC: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Bucksport, Maine, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ME0037478.

Identity

Facility as filedWHOLE OCEANS, LLC
Permittee as filedWHOLE OCEANS, LLC
NPDES IDME0037478
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 1, 2018
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2023
AddressBucksport, ME 04416
Receiving waterPenobscot River
SubwatershedCove Brook-Penobscot River (HUC 010200051007)

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 ME0037478.

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 ME0037478.

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

WHOLE OCEANS, LLC holds one of the individual permits on the register in Bucksport, Maine, and it is one of 7 NPDES permits in the Cove Brook-Penobscot River subwatershed (HUC 010200051007), this one included. The permit, NPDES ID ME0037478, was issued December 1, 2018, expires November 30, 2023, and is administratively continued. It lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.