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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAL026786

POTTSTOWN BORO, Pottstown, PA: NPDES PAL026786 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

POTTSTOWN BORO holds NPDES permit PAL026786. 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 (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedPOTTSTOWN BORO
Permittee as filedPOTTSTOWN BORO
NPDES IDPAL026786
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressPottstown, PA 19464
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSprogles Run-Schuylkill River (HUC 020402031002)
SIC4952 – Sewerage Systems
Other EPA IDs (FRS)ICIS-AIR source PA000664075

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

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
Copper, sludge, total, dry weight [as Cu]033December 31, 1998376% over the limit
Arsenic total, dry weight, sludge022December 31, 199850% over the limit
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]022December 31, 199841% over the limit
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]022December 31, 1998132% over the limit
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]022December 31, 1998310% over the limit
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]011September 30, 1998127% over the limit
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method010

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
January 1, 2019PR: Biosolids: Other Management Practice ViolationEP6

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 PAL026786 held by POTTSTOWN BORO in Pottstown, PA, a minor discharger with an administratively continued status and a Biosolids program type. The page lists 6 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025.