Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES RIR50Y008

ASPEN AEROGELS, East Providence, RI: NPDES RIR50Y008 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

ASPEN AEROGELS, held by ASPEN AEROGELS RHODE ISLAND, LLC, holds NPDES permit RIR50Y008, which discharges to Seekonk River-Providence River. EPA’s file records it issued January 15, 2014 and expiring August 14, 2018. 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	ASPEN AEROGELS
Permittee as filed	ASPEN AEROGELS RHODE ISLAND, LLC
NPDES ID	RIR50Y008
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	January 15, 2014
Expiration date	August 14, 2018
Address	East Providence, RI 02914
Receiving water	SEEKONK RIVER-PROVIDENCE RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Ten Mile River (HUC 010900040401)
SIC	3086 – Plastics Foam Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler RID987475498; ICIS-AIR source RI0000004400702021

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

5Pollutants on file
5Under a numeric limit
3With 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
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	1
Iron, total [as Fe]	2	1
Aluminum, total [as Al]	2	1
Nitrogen, total [as N]	2	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES RIR50Y008.

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 RIR50Y008.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit RIR50Y008, held by ASPEN AEROGELS RHODE ISLAND, LLC for its East Providence, RI facility, which discharges to the SEEKONK RIVER-PROVIDENCE RIVER. The permit is listed as administratively continued, a Minor Discharger class 5, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. It was issued January 15, 2014 and expired August 14, 2018.