Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAL024180

SWAMP CREEK STP-BERKS MONTGOMERY MUN. AUTH., Gilbertsville, PA: NPDES PAL024180 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SWAMP CREEK STP-BERKS MONTGOMERY MUN. AUTH., held by BERKS MONTGOMERY MUNICIPAL AUT, holds NPDES permit PAL024180. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	SWAMP CREEK STP-BERKS MONTGOMERY MUN. AUTH.
Permittee as filed	BERKS MONTGOMERY MUNICIPAL AUT
NPDES ID	PAL024180
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Associated permit record
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Biosolids
Issued	January 1, 2021
Expiration date	December 31, 2025
Address	Gilbertsville, PA 19525
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Swamp Creek (HUC 020402030805)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler PAD000412767

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

6Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method	0	1	0
Annual amt of sludge incinerated	0	1	0
Annual sludge production, total	0	1	0
Annual amount of sludge land applied	0	1	0
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit	0	1	0
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill	0	1	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PAL024180.

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 PAL024180.

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.

The SWAMP CREEK STP-BERKS MONTGOMERY MUN. AUTH. permit is one of 23 biosolids permits in Montgomery County, this one included, and 0.0% of those 23 carry an earlier issue date than this one. Among the 25 NPDES permits in the Swamp Creek subwatershed, this one included, it shares that watershed with many peers. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both counted as 0.