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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES RIR040005

CITY OF PROVIDENCE, Providence, RI: NPDES RIR040005 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CITY OF PROVIDENCE, held by City of Providence, holds NPDES permit RIR040005. EPA’s file records it issued March 18, 2004 and expiring December 19, 2008. 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 filedCITY OF PROVIDENCE
Permittee as filedCity of Providence
NPDES IDRIR040005
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramSmall municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedMarch 18, 2004
Expiration dateDecember 19, 2008
AddressProvidence, RI 02905
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedSeekonk River-Providence River (HUC 010900040901)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler RID982754988

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES RIR040005.

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 RIR040005.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES RIR040005.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
June 30, 2026Letter to Regulated EntityState

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.

What this page shows

CITY OF PROVIDENCE holds one of the 19 storm water small ms4s permits on EPA's NPDES register in Providence County. Among those 19 permits, 26.3% have an earlier issue date than this permit, while 68.4% have a violation on file. The permit is one of 54 NPDES permits in the Seekonk River-Providence River subwatershed (HUC 010900040901).