Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ME0102466

BAR HARBOR WWTF HULLS COVE FACILITY, Bar Harbor, ME: NPDES ME0102466 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

BAR HARBOR WWTF HULLS COVE FACILITY, held by BAR HARBOR TOWN OF, holds NPDES permit ME0102466, which discharges to Frenchman Bay. EPA’s file records it issued November 1, 2015 and expiring October 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	BAR HARBOR WWTF HULLS COVE FACILITY
Permittee as filed	BAR HARBOR TOWN OF
NPDES ID	ME0102466
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	November 1, 2015
Expiration date	October 31, 2020
Address	Bar Harbor, ME 04609
Receiving water	Frenchman Bay
Subwatershed	Frenchman Bay Frontal Drainages (HUC 010500021408)
Program components on file	CSO, POTW
SIC	4952 – Sewerage Systems

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

16Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
14With 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	6	133	1	February 28, 2006	247% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	45	1	September 30, 2006	227% over the limit
Solids, suspended percent removal	1	23	1	January 31, 2026	60% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	6	133	0
pH	2	44	0
Chlorine, total residual	2	42	0
Priority pollutants scan [yes/no]	0	23	0
Solids, settleable	1	22	0
BOD, 5-day, percent removal	1	22	0
NOEL Static 1Hr 20min Fert. Chronic Arbacia punctulata	1	21	0
Noael Static 48Hr Acute Mysid. Bahia	1	21	0
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	20	0
Priority Pollutants	1	5	0
Enterococci	0	2	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	0	0
Analytical Chemistry	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 ME0102466.

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
February 12, 2026	Reconnaissance without Sampling	S

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 ME0102466.

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 NPDES permit ME0102466 for the BAR HARBOR WWTF HULLS COVE FACILITY in Bar Harbor, ME, held by BAR HARBOR TOWN OF and discharging to Frenchman Bay, within the Frenchman Bay Frontal Drainages watershed (HUC 010500021408). The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued November 1, 2015 and expired October 31, 2020, with the status as of October 14, 2026.