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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0062383

QUEENS HARBOR WWTP, Charlotte, NC: NPDES NC0062383 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

QUEENS HARBOR WWTP, held by Carolina Water Service Inc of North Carolina, holds NPDES permit NC0062383. EPA’s file records it issued October 30, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2025. 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 filedQUEENS HARBOR WWTP
Permittee as filedCarolina Water Service Inc of North Carolina
NPDES IDNC0062383
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedOctober 30, 2020
Expiration dateJune 30, 2025
AddressCharlotte, NC 28278
SubwatershedTorrence Branch-Lake Wylie (HUC 030501011508)
NAICS221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC4952 – 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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C22813September 30, 20212,650% over the limit
Solids, total suspended2122January 31, 202058% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual161July 31, 201979% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2170
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant170
pH260
Temperature, water deg. centigrade150
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]150
Nitrogen, total [as N]030
Phosphorus, total [as P]030

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
December 1, 2022Permit Violations - Unapproved OperationST6
August 27, 2020Permit Violations - Unapproved OperationST6

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit NC0062383 for QUEENS HARBOR WWTP in Charlotte, NC, held by Carolina Water Service Inc of North Carolina, with its status shown as administratively continued and its discharger class as Minor. The page lists 10 pollutants on file, 3 of which are under a numeric limit, and 8 of which were recorded with effluent exceedances.