Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0075353

MCDOWELL ASSISTED LIVING WWTP, Marion, NC: NPDES NC0075353 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

MCDOWELL ASSISTED LIVING WWTP, held by McDowell Assisted Living LLC, holds NPDES permit NC0075353. EPA’s file records it issued April 21, 2020 and expiring December 31, 2024. 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	MCDOWELL ASSISTED LIVING WWTP
Permittee as filed	McDowell Assisted Living LLC
NPDES ID	NC0075353
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	April 21, 2020
Expiration date	December 31, 2024
Address	Marion, NC 28752
Subwatershed	Magness Creek-First Broad River (HUC 030501050702)
NAICS	623110 – Nursing Care Facilities [Skilled Nursing Facilities]
SIC	8051 – Skilled Nursing Care Facilities

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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
8With a violation of any kind
5With 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	2	17	13	March 31, 2018	64% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	16	12	June 30, 2025	94% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	1	11	9	July 31, 2006	7,043% over the limit
pH	2	8	4	August 31, 2019
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	8	4	July 31, 2019	313% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	5	0
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	1	2	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	2	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 NC0075353.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES NC0075353 for the MCDOWELL ASSISTED LIVING WWTP in Marion, NC, held by McDowell Assisted Living LLC, which EPA's file lists as administratively continued, a minor discharger, with 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit is recorded as issued April 21, 2020 and expiring December 31, 2024, and the status reflects EPA's permit file as loaded on October 14, 2026.