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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES PAL027006

TAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY-STP, Walker Township, PA: NPDES PAL027006 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY-STP holds NPDES permit PAL027006. 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 filedTAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY-STP
Permittee as filedTAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY-STP
NPDES IDPAL027006
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
AddressWalker Township, PA 18252
SubwatershedUpper Little Schuylkill River (HUC 020402030102)
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
Ann. amt sludge disposed by other method020
Annual amt of sludge incinerated010
Annual sludge production, total010
Annual amount of sludge land applied010
Annual amt. sludge disposed surface unit010
Annual amt sludge disposed in landfill010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES PAL027006.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES PAL027006.

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.

What this page shows

TAMAQUA BOROUGH AUTHORITY-STP is one of 11 biosolids permits in Schuylkill County, and 18.2% of that group has a violation on file, while the permit itself shows 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 0 pollutants under a numeric limit. Among the 11 biosolids permits in the county, 0.0% carry an earlier issue date than this one, and it sits within an Upper Little Schuylkill River subwatershed that also holds 11 NPDES permits, this one included.