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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MER05B730

TRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING & SANITARY LANDFILL, Fort Fairfield, ME: NPDES MER05B730 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING & SANITARY LANDFILL, held by TRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING AND SANITARY LANDFILL, holds NPDES permit MER05B730, which discharges to Nichols Brook. EPA’s file records it issued July 26, 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 TRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING & SANITARY LANDFILL: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Fort Fairfield, Maine, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MER05B730.

Identity

Facility as filedTRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING & SANITARY LANDFILL
Permittee as filedTRI-COMMUNITY RECYCLING AND SANITARY LANDFILL
NPDES IDMER05B730
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 26, 2011
Expiration dateApril 25, 2016
AddressFort Fairfield, ME 04742
Receiving waterNichols Brook
SubwatershedHockenhull Brook-Aroostook River (HUC 010100041113)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MEX020006206

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 MER05B730.

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 MER05B730.

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

Across the 15 storm water industrial permits in Aroostook County, 0.0% have a violation on file. Counting this Fort Fairfield permit, 60.0% of those 15 Aroostook County permits were issued before it. The Hockenhull Brook-Aroostook River subwatershed (HUC 010100041113) holds 8 NPDES permits, including this permit.