Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NC0079481

HARMONY ESTATES MHP WWTP, Marion, NC: NPDES NC0079481 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
9Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

HARMONY ESTATES MHP WWTP, held by Dennis J Whitson, holds NPDES permit NC0079481. EPA’s file records it issued May 11, 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	HARMONY ESTATES MHP WWTP
Permittee as filed	Dennis J Whitson
NPDES ID	NC0079481
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	May 11, 2020
Expiration date	December 31, 2024
Address	Marion, NC 28752
Subwatershed	Magness Creek-First Broad River (HUC 030501050702)
NAICS	221320 – Sewage Treatment Facilities
SIC	4952 – 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

9Pollutants on file
9Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
6With 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
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	20	10	October 31, 2023	186% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	18	10	March 31, 2026	42% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	3	17	8	December 31, 2014	40% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	13	5	June 30, 2013	30% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	1	9	2	May 31, 2025	37% over the limit
Coliform, fecal MF, MFC broth, 44.5 C	2	9	1	June 30, 2013	40% over the limit
Temperature, water deg. centigrade	3	9	0
pH	2	6	0
Chlorine, total residual	1	6	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 16, 2019	Permit Violations - Unapproved Operation	ST6

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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This public-records page covers the NPDES NC0079481 discharge permit for the HARMONY ESTATES MHP WWTP in Marion, NC, held by Dennis J Whitson, which is administratively continued and classed as a minor discharger. The page lists 9 pollutants on file, 6 of which carry an effluent exceedance.