Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MER05B170

HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC, Bethel, ME: NPDES MER05B170 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC, held by HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY, INC., holds NPDES permit MER05B170, which discharges to Alder River. EPA’s file records it issued August 22, 2011 and expiring April 25, 2016.

HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC, Bethel, Maine: Coverage under a general permit MER05B170, held by HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY, INC.; Industrial stormwater; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued August 22, 2011, term to April 25, 2016; discharges to Alder River.

Maine holds 348 Industrial stormwater coverages of this permit type in EPA’s file; 236 were issued before MER05B170. HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY, INC. holds 3 permits in Maine.

Other permits held by HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY, INC.

HANCOCK LUMBER-PITTSFIELD, Pittsfield: MER05B222, issued June 7, 2011
HANCOCK LUMBER, Casco: MER05B371, issued June 9, 2011

Coverages issued nearest MER05B170

August 12, 2011: NEWCASTLE MARINE, INC, Newcastle, MER05B685, held by NEWCASTLE MARINE, INC.
August 12, 2011: PINE STATE BEVERAGE CO, Gardiner, MER05B940, held by PINE STATE TRADING CO.
August 15, 2011: AABLE AUTO PARTS, Chelsea, MER05B122, held by TISDALE USED AUTO PARTS
August 15, 2011: PEMAQUID MARINE, New Harbor, MER05B982, held by TRANSOM BOAT WORKS
August 16, 2011: MID-COAST SOLID WASTE CORPORATION JACOBS QUARRY, Rockport, MER05B844, held by MID COAST SOLID WASTE CORPORATION
August 26, 2011: OCEAN POINT MARINA, East Boothbay, MER05B277, held by DECKSZ, LLC
August 29, 2011: SCARBORO AUTO PARTS, Scarborough, MER05B423, held by CITYSIDE, INC.
August 29, 2011: MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD, Waterville, MER05B669, held by PAN AM RAILWAYS, INC.
August 31, 2011: READY MIX CONCRETE BATCH PLANT/MAINTENANCE SHOP/GARAGE, Old Town, MER05B201, held by OWEN J. FOLSOM, INC.
August 31, 2011: LINDE LLC, Kittery, MER05B570

HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 3 discharge permits in the Alder River subwatershed (HUC 010400020204), MER05B170 among them. Its county holds 24, 3 of them major permits; MER05B170 is a minor permit.

Other permits in the Alder River subwatershed (HUC 010400020204)

BETHEL WWTF, Bethel: ME0101176, minor permit, discharging to Androscoggin River, permit term to December 31, 2020
D A WILSON & COMPANY, LLC, Bethel: MER05C050, minor permit, permit term to April 25, 2016

What the register holds for HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Bethel, Maine, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MER05B170.

Identity

Facility as filed	HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC
Permittee as filed	HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY, INC.
NPDES ID	MER05B170
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	August 22, 2011
Expiration date	April 25, 2016
Address	Bethel, ME 04217
Receiving water	Alder River
Subwatershed	Alder River (HUC 010400020204)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	ICIS-AIR source ME0000002301700011

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MER05B170.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MER05B170.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES MER05B170.

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 MER05B170.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

The HANCOCK LUMBER COMPANY INC storm water industrial permit is one of 3 NPDES permits in the Alder River subwatershed, and it sits among 8 storm water industrial permits in Oxford County, where 12.5% of the group carries a violation on file. The permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both counted as 0.