Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0100447

NEWPORT SD WWTF, Newport, ME: NPDES ME0100447 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
11Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NEWPORT SD WWTF, held by NEWPORT SANITARY DISTRICT, holds NPDES permit ME0100447, which discharges to East Branch Sebasticook River. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2015 and expiring December 31, 2019. 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	NEWPORT SD WWTF
Permittee as filed	NEWPORT SANITARY DISTRICT
NPDES ID	ME0100447
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Publicly owned treatment works
Program	Publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 1, 2015
Expiration date	December 31, 2019
Address	Newport, ME 04953
Receiving water	East Branch Sebasticook River
Subwatershed	Martin Stream (HUC 010300031902)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
11Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
4With 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
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	30	15	April 30, 2025	48% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	101	5	September 30, 2020	82% over the limit
E. coli, thermotol, MF, MTEC	2	19	3	September 30, 2017	59% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	6	96	1	July 31, 2007	2% over the limit
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	65	0
pH	2	32	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	0	32	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	16	0
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	16	0
Priority Pollutants	1	14	0
Solids, settleable	0	14	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	0	4	0
Ammonia [as N] + unionized ammonia	0	4	0
Analytical Chemistry	1	2	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 ME0100447.

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 September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit ME0100447 for the NEWPORT SD WWTF in Newport, ME, held by NEWPORT SANITARY DISTRICT and discharging to the East Branch Sebasticook River. The permit is administratively continued, carries a Minor Discharger class, and lists 15 pollutants on file, of which 11 are under a numeric limit and 4 had an effluent exceedance.