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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MER05B428

HUGHES BROS- MAIN PLANT, Hampden, ME: NPDES MER05B428 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HUGHES BROS- MAIN PLANT, held by HUGHES BROS. INC., holds NPDES permit MER05B428, which discharges to Penobcot River. EPA’s file records it issued July 22, 2011 and expiring April 25, 2016. 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 HUGHES BROS- MAIN PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Hampden, Maine, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MER05B428.

Identity

Facility as filedHUGHES BROS- MAIN PLANT
Permittee as filedHUGHES BROS. INC.
NPDES IDMER05B428
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedJuly 22, 2011
Expiration dateApril 25, 2016
AddressHampden, ME 04444
Receiving waterPenobcot River
SubwatershedSedgeunkedunk Stream (HUC 010200051002)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MEX020000896; ICIS-AIR source ME000ACIN000185

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MER05B428.

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 MER05B428.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES MER05B428.

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 MER05B428.

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

The Hughes Bros.- Main Plant storm water industrial permit (NPDES ID MER05B428) is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Sedgeunkedunk Stream subwatershed, and it is one of 34 storm water industrial permits on EPA's register in Penobscot County. Of those 34 permits, 50.0% carry an earlier issue date than this one, and 0.0% have a violation on file, while this permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances.